Progression of arterial stiffness and coronary atherosclerosis: Longitudinal evaluation by cardiac CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 798-804

  Oberoi, Shane ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a   Meyer, Mathias ^a,b   Henzler, Thomas ^a,b   Rowe, Garret W ^a   Costello, Philip ^a   Nance, John W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aorta; Atherosclerosis; Cardiac CT angiography; CT; Disease progression; Elasticity

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL; IOPROMIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTIC DISTENSIBILITY INDEX; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEGMENT INVOLVEMENT SCORE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878228233     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.8653     Document Type: Article

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