ANGIOGRAPHIC CORRELATES OF SPOTTY CORONARY-ARTERY CALCIUM DETECTED BYELECTRON-BEAM COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS WITH NORMAL OR NEAR-NORMAL CORONARY ANGIOGRAMS

Authors
SCHMERMUND A RUMBERGER JA COLTER JF SHEEDY PF SCHWARTZ RS
Citation
A. Schmermund et al., ANGIOGRAPHIC CORRELATES OF SPOTTY CORONARY-ARTERY CALCIUM DETECTED BYELECTRON-BEAM COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS WITH NORMAL OR NEAR-NORMAL CORONARY ANGIOGRAMS, The American journal of cardiology, 82(4), 1998, pp. 508
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
82
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1998)82:4<508:ACOSCC>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
To characterize relations between coronary plaque formation, focal, '' spotty'' coronary calcified lesions, and luminal narrowing, coronary c alcium was examined by electron-beam computed tomography in 49 patient s with normal or near-normal angiograms. Based on a coronary segmental analysis and on a patient-by-patient analysis, spotty coronary calciu m was associated with slight angiographic changes consistent with earl y atherosclerotic disease and compensatory arterial remodeling.