Prevalence and clinical characteristics of symptomatic patients with obstructive coronary artery disease in the absence of coronary calcifications

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1254-1258

  Drosch, Tanja ^a,b   Brodoefel, Harald ^a   Reimann, Anja ^a   Thomas, Christoph ^a   Tsiflikas, Ilias ^a   Heuschmid, Martin ^a   Schroeder, Stephen ^b   Burgstahler, Christof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KLINIK AM EICHERT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac computed tomography; Coronary calcifications; Noninvasive; Plaque

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING;

CALCINOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956491442     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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