Coronary artery calcium score assessed by a 64 multislice computed tomography and early indexes of functional and structural vascular remodeling in cardiac syndrome X patients

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 655-662

  Mizia Stec, Katarzyna ^a   Haberka, Maciej ^a   Mizia, Magdalena ^a   Chmiel, Artur ^a   Wierzbicka Chmiel, Joanna ^a   Skowerski, Mariusz ^a   Gasior, Zbigniew ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; cardiac syndrome X; computed tomography; coronary artery calcium score; endothelial dysfunction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIAC SYNDROME X; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; VASODILATATION; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGED; ARTERIES; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CALCIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 50249135671     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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