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Coronary Artery Plaque Burden Nomograms

Coronary Artery Plaque Burden Nomograms Editorial Are They Ready for Use? Paolo Raggi, MD; Nikolaos Alexopoulos, MD oronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is above the 50th and 75th SIS percentile (SIS%) compared Cfrequently used in symptomatic patients to exclude the with those below the 50th percentile. While death and major presence of obstructive coronary artery disease. Beyond high adverse cardiovascular events were predicted by SIS% in the diagnostic accuracy, it provides valuable prognostic infor- derivation cohort, only major adverse cardiovascular events mation. There is accumulating evidence that a patient’s risk were predicted by SIS% in the validation cohort. Women of major adverse events is not solely due to the presence of demonstrated a higher hazard of events than men when their obstructive coronary artery disease but also to the presence SIS was above the 75th percentile both in the derivation and of nonobstructive atherosclerotic disease. In this light, CCTA the validation cohort. Naturally, the event rate increased with has a definite advantage over invasive angiography because increasing age and SIS%. The effort made by the investigators it provides information on plaque volume and composition resembles closely the quantification of coronary atherosclero- beyond luminal stenosis. Currently, CCTA is the only nonin- sis on noncontrast computed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging Wolters Kluwer Health

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Wolters Kluwer Health
Copyright
© 2017 American Heart Association, Inc.
ISSN
1941-9651
eISSN
1942-0080
DOI
10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.117.006187
pmid
28292864
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Abstract

Editorial Are They Ready for Use? Paolo Raggi, MD; Nikolaos Alexopoulos, MD oronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is above the 50th and 75th SIS percentile (SIS%) compared Cfrequently used in symptomatic patients to exclude the with those below the 50th percentile. While death and major presence of obstructive coronary artery disease. Beyond high adverse cardiovascular events were predicted by SIS% in the diagnostic accuracy, it provides valuable prognostic infor- derivation cohort, only major adverse cardiovascular events mation. There is accumulating evidence that a patient’s risk were predicted by SIS% in the validation cohort. Women of major adverse events is not solely due to the presence of demonstrated a higher hazard of events than men when their obstructive coronary artery disease but also to the presence SIS was above the 75th percentile both in the derivation and of nonobstructive atherosclerotic disease. In this light, CCTA the validation cohort. Naturally, the event rate increased with has a definite advantage over invasive angiography because increasing age and SIS%. The effort made by the investigators it provides information on plaque volume and composition resembles closely the quantification of coronary atherosclero- beyond luminal stenosis. Currently, CCTA is the only nonin- sis on noncontrast computed

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Circulation: Cardiovascular ImagingWolters Kluwer Health

Published: Mar 1, 2017

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