Non-invasive detection of aortic and coronary atherosclerosis in homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia by 64 slice multi-detector row computed tomography angiography

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 910-915

  Santos, Raul D ^a   Miname, Marcio H ^a   Martinez, Lilton R C ^a   Rochitte, Carlos E ^a   Chacra, Ana P M ^a   Nakandakare, Edna R ^a   Chen, David ^b   Schaefer, Ernst J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b M2S Inc   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary angiography; Coronary calcification; Familial hypercholesteromia; Multiple detector row computed tomography

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOUS FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 40949108372     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.08.017     Document Type: Article

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