The relationship between coronary artery disease and pericoronary epicardial adipose tissue thickness

Journal of International Medical Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 17-25

  Aydın, Ayşe Murat ^a   Kayalı, Alperen ^a   Poyraz, Ahmet Kurşad ^a   Aydın, Kemal ^b  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Elazig Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; epicardial adipose tissue; multidetector computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPICARDIUM; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; THICKNESS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM;

EID: 84922295375     PISSN: 03000605     EISSN: 14732300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0300060514558323     Document Type: Article

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