Assessment and treatment of patients with type 2 myocardial infarction and acute nonischemic myocardial injury

AP DeFilippis, AR Chapman, NL Mills, JA De Lemos… - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Although coronary thrombus overlying a disrupted atherosclerotic plaque has long been
considered the hallmark and the primary therapeutic target for acute myocardial infarction …

Coronary artery plaque characteristics associated with adverse outcomes in the SCOT-HEART study

MC Williams, AJ Moss, M Dweck, PD Adamson… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - jacc.org
Background Unlike most noninvasive imaging modalities, coronary computed tomography
angiography can characterize subtypes of atherosclerotic plaque. Objectives The purpose of …

Pathophysiology of acute coronary syndromes—diagnostic and treatment considerations

P Theofilis, E Oikonomou, C Chasikidis, K Tsioufis… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coronary artery disease and acute coronary syndromes are accountable for significant
morbidity and mortality, despite the preventive measures and technological advancements …

Long-term all-cause and cause-specific mortality in asymptomatic patients with CAC≥ 1,000: results from the CAC Consortium

AW Peng, M Mirbolouk, OA Orimoloye, AD Osei… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - jacc.org
Objectives This study thoroughly explored the demographic and imaging characteristics, as
well as the all-cause and cause-specific mortality risks of patients with a coronary artery …

Radiomics-based precision phenotyping identifies unstable coronary plaques from computed tomography angiography

A Lin, M Kolossváry, S Cadet, P McElhinney… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - jacc.org
Objectives The aim of this study was to precisely phenotype culprit and nonculprit lesions in
myocardial infarction (MI) and lesions in stable coronary artery disease (CAD) using …

Plaque burden and 1-year outcomes in acute chest pain: results from the multicenter RAPID-CTCA trial

MN Meah, E Tzolos, KL Wang, A Bularga… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - jacc.org
Background In patients with stable chest pain, computed tomography (CT) plaque burden is
an independent predictor of future coronary events. Objectives The purpose of this study …

A survey on coronary atherosclerotic plaque tissue characterization in intravascular optical coherence tomography

A Boi, AD Jamthikar, L Saba, D Gupta… - Current atherosclerosis …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Atherosclerotic plaque deposition within the coronary vessel
wall leads to arterial stenosis and severe catastrophic events over time. Identification of …

Extraction of coronary atherosclerotic plaques from computed tomography imaging: a review of recent methods

H Liu, A Wingert, J Wang, J Zhang, X Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Atherosclerotic plaques are the major cause of coronary artery disease (CAD).
Currently, computed tomography (CT) is the most commonly applied imaging technique in …

[HTML][HTML] Insight from imaging on plaque vulnerability: similarities and differences between coronary and carotid arteries—implications for systemic therapies

F Cademartiri, A Balestrieri, R Cau… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nowadays it is widely accepted that the rupture of the atherosclerotic plaque in coronary and
carotid arteries plays a fundamental role in the development of acute myocardial infarctions …

How accurate is atherosclerosis imaging by coronary computed tomography angiography?

R Nakanishi, S Motoyama, J Leipsic… - Journal of cardiovascular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Invasive coronary plaque imaging such as intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence
tomography has been widely used to observe culprit or non-culprit coronary atherosclerosis …