Vulnerable plaque features on coronary CT angiography as markers of inducible regional myocardial hypoperfusion from severe coronary artery stenoses

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 588-595

  Shmilovich, Haim ^a   Cheng, Victor Y ^a,b   Tamarappoo, Balaji K ^a   Dey, Damini ^a,b   Nakazato, Ryo ^a   Gransar, Heidi ^a   Thomson, Louise E J ^a,b   Hayes, Sean W ^a,b   Friedman, John D ^a,b   Germano, Guido ^a,b   Slomka, Piotr J ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery stenosis; Low attenuation plaque; Myocardial perfusion; Positive remodeling; Spotty calcification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; LOW ATTENUATION PLAQUE CONTENT; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL HYPOPERFUSION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PERFUSION; POSITIVE REMODELING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SPOTTY CALCIFICATION;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; ODDS RATIO; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 82955195721     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.07.128     Document Type: Article

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