Artículo
Detection of coronary inflammation
Fecha de publicación:
06/2019
Editorial:
Elsevier Science Inc.
Revista:
Lancet
ISSN:
0140-6736
e-ISSN:
1474-547X
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
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Resumen
By use of coronary CT angiography in two large real-life prospective cohorts from completely different populations, Evangelos K Oikonomou and colleagues1 validated the prognostic value of a non-invasive marker of coronary inflammation, the perivascular fat attenuation index.2 In this study, a fat attenuation index higher than −70·1 Hounsfield units was identified as a strong predictor of all-cause and cardiac mortality, independent of demographics, epicardial fat volume, high-risk plaque features, and the extent of atherosclerosis. Of note, these findings were confirmed by the validation cohort. By improving risk stratification of patients at low-to-intermediate risk over state-of-the-art coronary CT angiography through unpretentious post-processing, the fat attenuation index shows promise in gauging the residual coronary risk and improving the identification of vulnerable patients...
Palabras clave:
Coronary inflammation
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Rodriguez Granillo, Gaston Alfredo; Carrascosa, Patricia; Detection of coronary inflammation; Elsevier Science Inc.; Lancet; 393; 10187; 6-2019; 2198-2199
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