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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Perivascular Fat: A Novel Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease.

Spyridon Simantiris, Aikaterini Pappa, Charalampos Papastamos, Panagiotis Korkonikitas, Charalambos Antoniades, Constantinos Tsioufis, Dimitris Tousoulis

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Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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7 authors.

Spyridon Simantiris1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8405-6244
Aikaterini PappaCardiology Department, Konstantopouleio General Hospital, 14233 Nea Ionia, Greece.
Charalampos Papastamos1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0229-4896
Panagiotis KorkonikitasCardiology Department, Konstantopouleio General Hospital, 14233 Nea Ionia, Greece.
Charalambos AntoniadesDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, UK.
Constantinos Tsioufis1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Dimitris Tousoulis1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) interacts with the vascular wall and secretes bioactive factors which regulate vascular wall physiology. Vice versa, vascular wall inflammation affects the adjacent PVAT via paracrine signals, which induce cachexia-type morphological changes in perivascular fat. These changes can be quantified in pericoronary adipose tissue (PCAT), as an increase in PCAT attenuation in coronary computed tomography angiography images. Fat attenuation index (FAI), a novel imaging biomarker, measures PCAT attenuation around coronary artery segments and is associated with coronary artery disease presence, progression, and plaque instability. Beyond its diagnostic capacity, PCAT attenuation can also ameliorate cardiac risk stratification, thus representing an innovative prognostic biomarker of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, technical, biological, and anatomical factors are weakly related to PCAT attenuation and cause variation in its measurement. Thus, to integrate FAI, a research tool, into clinical practice, a medical device has been designed to provide FAI values standardized for these factors. In this review, we discuss the interplay of PVAT with the vascular wall, the diagnostic and prognostic value of PCAT attenuation, and its integration as a CVD risk marker in clinical practice.

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atherosclerosiscardiovascular diseasecoronary computed tomography angiographyfat attenuation indexpericoronary adipose tissue attenuationperivascular adipose tissue

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PMID39202318
PMCPMC11353828

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