Quantitative Evaluation of High-Risk Coronary Plaque by Coronary CTA and Subsequent Acute Coronary Events

JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Aug;12(8 Pt 1):1568-1571. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.11.011. Epub 2019 Jan 16.

Authors

Alexander R van Rosendael¹, Subhi J Al'Aref¹, Aeshita Dwivedi¹, Timothy S Kim¹, Jessica M Peña¹, Patricia C Dunham¹, Yong-Jin Kim², Kavitha Chinnaiyan³, Gudrun Feuchtner⁴, Fabian Plank⁴, Daniel S Berman⁵, Leslee J Shaw¹, Hyuk-Jae Chang⁶, Fay Y Lin¹, Jeroen J Bax⁷, Jagat Narula⁸, James K Min⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
² Department of Cardiology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
³ Department of Cardiology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
⁵ Department of Imaging and Medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
⁶ Division of Cardiology, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital and Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, South Korea.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁸ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Heart, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, New York, New York.
⁹ Department of Radiology, Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York. Electronic address: jkm2001@med.cornell.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: acute coronary syndrome; coronary CTA; high risk plaque.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Acute Coronary Syndrome / diagnosis
Acute Coronary Syndrome / etiology*
Acute Coronary Syndrome / therapy
Computed Tomography Angiography*
Coronary Angiography / methods*
Coronary Artery Disease / complications
Coronary Artery Disease / diagnostic imaging*
Coronary Artery Disease / therapy
Coronary Stenosis / complications
Coronary Stenosis / diagnostic imaging*
Coronary Stenosis / therapy
Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Plaque, Atherosclerotic*
Predictive Value of Tests
Prognosis
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Rupture, Spontaneous
Severity of Illness Index
Vascular Calcification / complications
Vascular Calcification / diagnostic imaging*
Vascular Calcification / therapy

Grants and funding

R01 HL115150/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States