Combined presence of aortic valve calcification and mitral annular calcification as a marker of the extent and vulnerable characteristics of coronary artery plaque assessed by 64-multidetector computed tomography

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 166-172

  Utsunomiya, Hiroto ^a   Yamamoto, Hideya ^a   Kunita, Eiji ^a   Kitagawa, Toshiro ^a   Ohashi, Norihiko ^a   Oka, Toshiharu ^a   Yamazato, Ryo ^a   Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Kihara, Yasuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic valve calcification; Computed tomography; Coronary artery plaque; Mitral annular calcification; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958506550     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.08.070     Document Type: Article

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