Non-invasive

Last updated: February 21, 2008

 Non-invasive: Imaging

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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and carotid atherosclerosis in children


Presented by:
Lucia Pacifico, Vito Cantisani, Paolo Ricci, John F. Osborn, Elisa Schiavo, Caterina Anania, Eva Ferrara, Giuliano Dvisic, and Claudio Chiesa

Comparison of Subclinical Coronary...
Progression of Calicified Coronary..
Electron Beam computed tomography..
Long-term Prognosis Associated with..
Ethnic Differences in the Prognostic...
Predictors of Caratid Intima-Media...
Predictors of Subclinical Atheroscleros

Coronary artery disease among asymptomatic diabetic and non-diabetic patients undergoing coronary CT angiography

Presented by:
Zeina AR, Blinder J, Rosenschein U, Zaid G , Barmeir E
 

Predictive Value of Coronary Calcifications for Future Cardiac Events in Asymptomatic Individuals

Presented by:

Alexander Becker, MD, Alexander Leber, Christoph Becker, MD, Andreas Knez, MD

 

Feasibility of low-dose coronary CT angiography: First experience with prospective ECG-gating

Presented by:

Husmann L., Valenta I., Gaemperli O., Adda O., Treyer V., Wyss CA, Veit-Haibach P., Tatsugami F., von Schulthess GK, Kaufmann PA

 
Genome-wide Admixture Mapping for Coronary Artery Calcification in African Americans: The NHLBI Family Heart Study

Presented by:
Qunyuan Zhang, Cora E. Lewis, Lynne E. Wagenknecht, Richard H. Myers, James S. Pankow, Steven C. Hunt, Kari E. North, James E. Hixson, J. Jeffrey Carr, Lawrence C. Shimmin, Ingrid Borecki, Michael A. Province

 
Early treatment reduce the cardiovascular risk in newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis patients

Presented by:
AN Georgiadis, PV Voulgari, MI Argyropoulou, Y Alamanos, M Elisaf, AD Tselepis, AA Drosos

 
Difference in Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Korean and Japanese men

Presented by:
J. Choo, H. Ueshima, Y. Jang, K. Sutton-Tyrrell, A. El-Saed, T. Kadowaki, T. Takamiya, T. Okamura, Y. Ueno, Y. Nakamura, A. Sekikawa, J. D. Curb, L.H. Kuller, & C. Shin
 
Prevalence and Clinical Predictors of Atherosclerotic CAD in Asymptomatic Patients Undergoing Coronary MDCT

Presented by:
Gil N. Bachar, MD, Ran Kornowski, MD, FACC,, MD, Shmuel Fuchs, MD, Eli Atar, MD

 

FDG-PET is an effective imaging modality to detect and quantify age-related atherosclerosis in large arteries

Presented by:
Bural G, Torigian DA, Chamroonrat W, Houseni M,Chen W, Basu S, Kumar R, Alavi A.

 
Automatic Plaque Characterization Employing Quantitative and Multicontrast MRI

Presented by:
Binjian Sun, Don P. Giddens, Robert Long Jr., W. Robert Taylor, Diana Weiss, Giji Joseph, David Vega, John N. Oshinski

 
Feasibility of low-dose coronary CT angiography: first experience with prospective ECG-gating

Presented by:
Husmann L., Valenta I., Gaemperli O., Adda O., Treyer V., Wyss CA, Veit-Haibach P., Tatsugami F., von Schulthess GK, Kaufmann PA

 
Association between Cardiovascular Risk Profiles and the Presence and Extent of Different Types of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque as Detected by Multidetector Computed Tomography

Presented by:
F. Bamberg, N. Dannemann, M. D. Shapiro, S. Seneviratne, M. Ferencik, J. Butler, W. Koenig, K. Nasir, R. C.Cury, A. Tawakol, S. Achenbach, T.J. Brady, and U. Hoffmann

 
Sex differences in the relation of HDL cholesterol to progression of carotid intima-media thickness: The Los Angeles Atherosclerosis Study

Presented by:
Amy Z. Fan, James H. Dwyer

 
A Negative Correlation between Human Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Progression and Plaque Wall Stress: In Vivo MRI-Based 2D/3D FSI Models

Presented by:

Dalin Tang, Chun Yang,  Sayan Mondal,  Fei Liu, Gador Canton, Thomas S. Hatsukami,  Chun Yuan

 
Turbulent blow flow plays an essential localizing role in the development of atherosclerotic lesions in experimentally-induced Hypercholesterolemia in rats

Presented by:
Prado CM, Ramos SG, Elias J Jr, Rossi MA

 

Bracial flow-mediated dialtion predicts incident cardiovascular events in older adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study

Presented by:
Joseph Yeboah MD, John R. Crouse III MD, Fang-Chi Hsu PhD, Gregory L. Burke MD MS, David M. Herrington MD MHS

 

Non-invasive Detection of Aortic and Coronary Atherosclerosis in Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia by 64 Slice Multi-Detector Row Computed Tomography Angiography

Presented by:
Raul D. Santos MD, PhD, Marcio H. Miname MD, Lilton C. Martinez MD, Carlos E. Rochitte MD, Ana P.M. Chacra MD, Edna R. Nakandakare MD, David Chen, PhD, and Ernst J. Schaefer MD

Estimated Functional Capacity Predicts Mortality in Older Adults

Presented by:
Xuemei Sui, James N. Ladikta, James W. Hardin, and Steven N. Blair
 

Impact of 64-Slice Cardiac Computed
Tomography Angiography on Clinical
Decision-Making in Emergency
Department Patients With Chest Pain of
Possible Myocardial Ischemic Origin

Presented by:
R. Rubinshtein, D.A. Halon, T. Gaspar, R. Jaffe, J. Goldstein, B. Karkabi, M.Y. Flugelman, R. Shapira, A. Kogan N. Peled, B.S.

Carotid atherosclerosis and vascular age
in the assessment of coronary heart
disease risk beyond the
Framingham
Risk Score

Presented by:
Mireia Junyent, Daniel Zambón, Rosa Gilabert, Isabel Núñez, Montserrat Cofán, Emilio Ros

 

   
   
 Non-invasive: Non-imaging  

Incremental predictive value of vascular assessments combined with the Framingham Risk Score for prediction of coronary events in subjects of low intermediate risk

Presented by:
Kui-Kai Lau, Yap-Hang Chan, Kai-Hang Yiu, MBBS, Sidney Tam, MD, Sheung-Wai Li, MBBS, Chu-Pak Lau, MD, Hung-Fat Tse, MD,PhD.

 

 

No correlation and low agreement of imaging and inflammatory atherosclerosis’ markers in familial hypercholesterolemia


Presented by:
Lilton R.C. Martinez MD, Marcio H. Miname MD, Luiz A. Bortolotto MD, Ana P.M. Chacra MD, Carlos E. Rochitte MD, Andrei C. Sposito MD, Raul D. Santos MD,PhD.

 
The Impact of carotid plaque screening on motivation for smoking cessation  and knowledge retention about atherosclerosis

Presented by:
Nicolas Rodondi, MD, MAS, Reto Auer, MD, Patrick J. Devine, MD, Patrick G. O’Malley, MD, MPH, Daniel Hayoz, MD, Jacques Cornuz, MD, MPH
 

Assesstment of Peripheral Vascualar Endothelial Function in the Ambulatory Setting

Presented by:
Jeffrey T. Kuvin, Anish Mammen, Paula Mooney, Alawi A. Alsheikh-Ali, Richard H. Karas

 

Serum Gamma-glutamyltransferase Level and Peripheral
Arterial Disease

Presented by:

Anoop Shankar, Jialiang Li, Barbara E.K. Klein, F. Javier Nieto, Ronald Klein

 
The Effect of Novel Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors on the Ethnic Specific Prevalence of Peripheral Arterial Disease

Presented by:
Matthew A. Allison, Michael H. Criqui, Robyn L. McClelland, JoAnn M. Scott, Mary M. McDermott, Kiang Liu, Aaron R. Folsom, Alain G. Bertoni, A. Richey Sharrett, Shunichi Homma, and Sujata Kori
 
Pulse Wave Velocity is Inversely Related
to Vertebral Bone Density in
Hemodialysis Patients

Presented by:
Paolo Raggi, MD, Antonio Bellasi, Emiliana Ferramosca, MD, Geoffrey Block, MD, Muntner Paul, PhD
 
Association of Pulse Wave Velocity with 
Vascular and Valvular Calcification in
Hemodialysis Patients

Presented by:
P. Raggi MD, A. Bellasi, MD1, E. Ferramosca, MD, T. Islam, PhD, P. Muntner Paul, PhD, G.A. Block, MD
 
     

 

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  Patient's Question
Which condition is more dangerous? (better predicts a near future heart attack)
    High blood cholesterol
    High coronary calcium
  Doctor's Question
Would you treat individuals with normal cholesterol but high coronary calcium or carotid IMT?
    No
    Yes