Assessment of aortic atheromatous plaque and stiffness by 64-slice computed tomography is useful for identifying patients with coronary artery disease

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2021-2027

  Okuyama, Takuhiro ^a   Ehara, Shoichi ^a   Shirai, Nobuyuki ^a   Sugioka, Kenichi ^a   Yamashita, Hajime ^a   Kataoka, Toru ^a   Naruko, Takahiko ^b   Itoh, Toshihide ^d   Otani, Katharina ^d   Matsuoka, Toshiyuki ^a   Inoue, Yuichi ^a   Ueda, Makiko ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^c   Hozumi, Takeshi ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Osaka Ekisaikai Hospital   (Japan)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Computed tomography; Coronary disease; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RR INTERVAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THORACIC AORTA;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPLIANCE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56849107317     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0396     Document Type: Article

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