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ArticleTexas Heart Institute journal2018

Changes in Coronary Plaque Volume: Comparison of Serial Measurements on Intravascular Ultrasound and Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography.

Rine Nakanishi, Anas Alani, Suguru Matsumoto, Dong Li, Michael Fahmy, Jeby Abraham, Christopher Dailing, Alexander Broersen, Pieter H Kitslaar, Khurram Nasir and 2 more

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Article in Texas Heart Institute journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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12 authors.

Rine Nakanishi
Anas Alani
Suguru Matsumoto
Dong Li
Michael Fahmy
Jeby Abraham
Christopher Dailing
Alexander Broersen
Pieter H Kitslaar
Khurram Nasir
James K Min
Matthew J Budoff

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Abstract

Serial measurements of coronary plaque volume have been used to evaluate drug efficacy in atherosclerotic progression. However, the usefulness of computed tomography for this purpose is unknown. We investigated whether the change in total plaque volume on coronary computed tomographic angiography is associated with the change in segment plaque volume on intravascular ultrasound. We prospectively enrolled 11 consecutive patients (mean age, 56.3 ± 5 yr; 6 men) who were to undergo serial invasive coronary angiographic examinations with use of grayscale intravascular ultrasound and coronary computed tomography, performed <180 days apart at baseline and from 1 to 2 years later. Subjects underwent 186 serial measurements of total plaque volume on coronary computed tomography and 22 of segmental plaque volume on intravascular ultrasound. We used semiautomated software to examine percentage relationships and changes between total plaque and segmental plaque volumes. No significant correlations were found between percentages of total coronary and segment coronary plaque volume, nor between normalized coronary plaque volume. However, in the per-patient analysis, there were strong correlations between the imaging methods for changes in total coronary and segment coronary plaque volume (

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Computed Tomography AngiographyCoronary AngiographyCoronary Artery DiseaseCoronary VesselsDisease ProgressionFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleMiddle AgedPlaque, AtheroscleroticProspective StudiesUltrasonography, InterventionalCoronary angiography/methodscoronary vessels/diagnostic imagingdisease progressionimage interpretation, computer-assistedplaque, atherosclerotic/diagnostic imagingpredictive value of testsprospective studiestime factorstomography, x-ray computed/methodsultrasonography, interventional/methods

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