IMPORTANCE OF LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY-ARTERY CURVATURE IN DETERMINING CROSS-SECTIONAL PLAQUE DISTRIBUTION ASSESSED BY INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND

Citation
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
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
82
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1998)82:3<381:IOLADC>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
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.