OCT was used to evaluate the mechanism of action of IVL quantifying the coronary artery calcification (CAC) characteristics and calcium plaque fracture. These investigators enrolled a total of 628 patients with a mean age of 71.8 years, 77.1 % men. In these patients, the left anterior descending...
To evaluate the relation of coronary artery calcifications (CAC) on non-ECG-gated CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) with short-term mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). We retrospectively included all in-patients between May 2007 and December 2014 with an ICD-9 code for ...
a 1996 American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement on coronary artery calcification concludes that the presence of coronary artery calcium is a poor predictor of coronary artery disease risk, and that there
Coronary artery calcification score and the progression of chronic kidney disease. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022;33(8):1590–601. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Templeton AJ, McNamara MG, Seruga B, Vera-Badillo FE, Aneja P, Ocana A, et al. Prognostic role of neutrophil-to-...
N-NAFLD is associated with lower mortality, while NAFLD can have higher total cost, and longer length of stay among coronary artery calcifications. Randomized clinical trials are needed to see the progression of CAC in NAFLD. Download: Download high-res image (300KB) Download: Download full-siz...
(n = 10 SNPs), coronary artery calcification (n = 8 SNPs), and myocardial infarction (n = 8 SNPs). Three additional lead SNPs were associated with CAD in the CARDIoGRAMplusC4D and UK Biobank meta-analysis. Eighty-four lead SNPs were associated with 101 CVD-related traits, ...
(n =29) were referred for coronary angiography; (ii) patients with P-NT-proBNP ≤ 45.2 ng/L and CAC 400–1000 underwent CT angiography (n = 20); CT angiography was only used in patients with CAC 400–1000 since severe coronary artery calcifications (CAC > 1000) compromise...
Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a rare congenital heart disease that in most cases manifests in the first months of life, being a well-studied entity of myocardial ischaemia in young patients. It has been reported that up to 90 % of infant...
recessive pattern have been described to cause pseudoxanthoma elasticum, a connective tissue disorder with characteristic arterial dysplasia characterized by calcification in elastic tissues. The current study’s findings support that SCAD, migraine headache, and FMD at least partly share a common genetic ...
AMI indicates acute myocardial infarction; CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; NSTEMI, non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction; SIHD, stable ischemic heart disease; STEMI, ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction; and UA; unstable angina. Table 1. ...