Clinical StudiesArterial Calcification and Not Lumen Stenosis Is Highly Correlated With Atherosclerotic Plaque Burden in Humans: A Histologic Study of 723 Coronary Artery Segments Using Nondecalcifying Methodology☆
This study was presented in part at the 44th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1995.
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Abbreviations
CAD
coronary artery disease
EBCT
electron beam computed tomography (tomographic)
EEL
external elastic lamina
GMA
glycolmethylmethacrylate
IEL
internal elastic lamina
IROI
intensity range of interest
LAD
left anterior descending coronary artery
LCx
left circumflex coronary artery
RCA
right coronary artery
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Supported in part by a grant from the Italian National Council of Research, Rome, Italy, (Dr. Sangiorgi) and the J. Holden Dehaan Foundation, Naples, Florida.
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