A recent explosion in the amount of cardiovascular risk and incipient, undetected subclinical
cardiovascular pathology has swept across the globe. Nearly 70% of adult Americans are …

Despite updated guidelines and technological developments that allow for an accurate
diagnosis, many asymptomatic individuals have a high risk of developing CAD or cardiac …

This is Part 2 of a two-part review summarising current knowledge on biomarkers of
atherosclerosis. Part 1 addressed serological biomarkers. Here, in part 2 we address …

The development of cardiac CT has provided a non-invasive alternative to
echocardiography, exercise electrocardiogram, and invasive angiography and cardiac CT …

A RM é um excelente método diagnóstico, por não utilizar radiação ionizante e nem meio
de contraste com maior potencial de nefrotoxicidade. Ela permite a avaliação da anatomia …

Background—Although age and sex distributions of calcified coronary plaque have been
well described in the general population, noncalcified plaque (NCP) distributions remain …

Objectives A systematic review and meta-analysis to assess sensitivity and specificity of
coronary CT angiography (CCTA) for significant stenosis at different degrees of coronary …

Objective It has been reported that epicardial adipose tissue could locally modulate the
coronary artery functions through secretion of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory …

Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is the gold standard imaging study used in the
diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE). Computed tomography angiography (CTA) has …

Clinical indications for cardiac computed tomography. From the Working Group of the Cardiac
Radiology Section of the Italian Soc Page 1 Radiol med DOI 10.1007/s11547-012-0814-x …