IMPORTANCE OF LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY-ARTERY CURVATURE IN DETERMINING CROSS-SECTIONAL PLAQUE DISTRIBUTION ASSESSED BY INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND
T. Iwami et al., IMPORTANCE OF LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY-ARTERY CURVATURE IN DETERMINING CROSS-SECTIONAL PLAQUE DISTRIBUTION ASSESSED BY INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND, The American journal of cardiology, 82(3), 1998, pp. 381
We assessed the relation between the circumferential distribution of c
oronary atherosclerotic plaques and the structure of the epicardial co
ronary arteries in patients with coronary artery disease using intrvas
cular ultrasound in vivo. Coronary atherosclerosis preferentially form
ed at the inner are of the curved coronary vessels, and greater vessel
curvatures were associated with greater distributions of atherosclero
tic lesions along the inner coronary artery wall.