Calcification is a clinical marker of atherosclerosis. This review focuses on recent findings on
the association between calcification and plaque vulnerability. Calcified plaques have …

Calcium impacts the natural history and treatment of coronary artery disease in many ways.
Intravascular imaging studies, mostly intravascular ultrasound, but more recently studies …

Importance Coronary artery calcium (CAC), measured by computed tomography (CT), has
strong predictive value for incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. The standard CAC …

Background: Early subclinical atherosclerosis has been mainly researched in carotid
arteries. The potential value of femoral arteries for improving the predictive capacity of …

An international panel of the International Atherosclerosis Society has developed a new set
of recommendations for the management of dyslipidemia. The panel identifies non—high …

An international panel of the International Atherosclerosis Society has developed a new set
of recommendations for the management of dyslipidemia. The panel identifies non-high …

Objectives To compare coronary artery calcification (CAC) scores measured on virtual non-
contrast (VNC) and virtual non-iodine (VNI) reconstructions computed from coronary …

Strategies to prevent acute coronary and cerebrovascular events are based on accurate
identification of patients at increased cardiovascular (CV) risk who may benefit from …

The amount of coronary calcium strongly correlates with the degree of atherosclerosis and,
therefore, with the rate of future cardiac events. Calcified coronary lesions still represent a …

Objective To assess the maximally achievable computed tomography (CT) dose reduction
for coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring with iterative reconstruction (IR) by using phantom …