calcified plaques
Framework for Detection and Localization of Coronary Non-Calcified Plaques in Cardiac CTA using Mean Radial Profiles
... non-calcified plaques can be optimally detected by investigating the composition of the arterial ...non-calcified plaques generally lack a specific texture or shape which makes the application ...
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A zero coronary artery calcium score in patients with stable chest pain is associated with a good prognosis, despite risk of non-calcified plaques
... Results A total of 915 of 1753 (52.2%) patients (mean age 56.8 ± 12.0 years; 46.2% male) had a zero CAC score. Of the 751 (82.1%) patients with a zero CAC in whom CTCA was performed, 674 (89.7%) had normal coronary ...
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Window Settings for the Study of Calcified Carotid Plaques with Multidetector CT Angiography
... all calcified plaques, analyzed specific window width, window level, Hounsfield unit intraluminal measure, and corresponding ste- nosis degree were ...
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Collagenase <em>Clostridium histolyticum</em> in the treatment of Peyronie’s disease: patient selection and perspectives
... with calcified plaques were included, disease stability was defined as 3 + months without symptom change (but did not require 12 months of disease duration), a different penile modeling procedure was used, ...
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Prediction of Carotid Intraplaque Hemorrhage Using Adventitial Calcification and Plaque Thickness on CTA
... One study of 30 patients found that fibrous cap inflammation more often occurs in noncalcified than in calcified plaques, suggesting that calcification indicates plaque stability.16 An a[r] ...
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Sex-related differences in the association between plasma fibrinogen and non-calcified or mixed coronary atherosclerotic plaques
... risk plaques due to their characteristic of being prone to rupture and their association with plaque volume progression and in- creased adverse outcomes [13, ...had calcified plaques (CPs) ...
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Three-dimensional reconstruction of coronary arteries and plaque morphology using CT angiography – comparison and registration with IVUS
... branches, calcified plaques and the origin of the stents were manually selected to identify matching be- tween CTA and ...between plaques detected by IVUS and CTA and compared both their volume and ...
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Detection, localization and quantification of non-calcified coronary plaques in contrast enhanced CT angiography
... It is notable that choosing a fixed intensity threshold to differentiate blood voxels from other structures in a CTA volume (low intensity tissues or high intensity calcifications) often leads to inaccurate results as ...
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Automated quantification of non-calcified coronary plaques in cardiac CT angiographic imagery
... soft plaques threatening in clinical context, ...the calcified plaques which often lead to disease symptoms at early ...that calcified plaques can be identified easily in a CTA image ...
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MMP-1 serum levels predict coronary atherosclerosis in humans
... Atherosclerotic plaques were clas- sified as calcified, mixed or non-calcified ...lesions. Calcified plaques were defined as lesions with a HU value above 130 while non-calcified ...
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Original Article Association between serum uric acid and the characteristics of coronary plaque burden: assessment with coronary CT angiography
... lipid-rich plaques to be vulnerable plaques, but we did not assess the relationship between the serum UA level and coronary plaque volume for intermediate density (30 - 150 HU) and calcified ...
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Lower ratio of high molecular weight adiponectin level to total may be associated with coronary high risk plaque
... of calcified and non-calcified coronary atheroscler- otic plaques ...coronary plaques in our study ...artery plaques in subjects with obstructive stable ...
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Analysis of coliphage lambda mutations that affect Q gene activity: puq, byp, and nin5.
... When potential recombinant plaques for pertinent mutations were screened, the following phenotypes were used: i c1ts857, clear plaques at 420C; ii by, clear plaques at 32°C and the abili[r] ...
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<p>Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 and Osteopontin Gene Expression in Epicardial Adipose Tissue from Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Is Associated with the Presence of Calcified Atherosclerotic Plaques</p>
... Purpose: It has been proposed that the cardiovascular effects of obesity are related to epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), which seems to play an active role on the development and calci fi cation of atherosclerotic ...
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Simulation of human atherosclerotic femoral plaque tissue: the influence of plaque material model on numerical results
... This study generates material models based on experimental testing of atherosclerotic femoral artery tissue that can be employed to more accurately model diseased femoral artery tissue using computational methods. These ...
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Analysis of the relationship between the inner structure and the magnitude of atherosclerotic plaques
... atherosclerotic plaques in several groups of coronary artery sections selected on the basis of angiographic ...hard plaques and the lowest of soft plaques was noted in sections with significant ...
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Neuropathology for the Neuroradiologist: Plaques and Tangles
... strate a consistent pattern of involvement that may be useful for staging the disease in autopsied brain specimens. 18,40,46,47 Patients with preclinical DAT have significant entorhinal cor- tex involvement with ...
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Dysgerminoma Presenting as a Calcified Abdominal Mass With Hypercalcemia
... Electron microscopic examination of the nodule revealed that the predominant cell types in the tumor contained beta granules. In addition, several cells contained granules char- acterist[r] ...
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La pelade par plaques
... par plaques, l’inflammation cause le passage d’une grande part des follicules pileux de la phase anagène à la phase ...par plaques, la plupart des follicules pileux en sont encore à la phase ...par ...
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TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE MUTANTS OF BACTERIOPHAGE T4D: THEIR ISOLATION AND GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION
... mutants remains the same with increased temperature of incubation, but the plaques get smaller until a temperature is reached at which plaques can no longer be discerned. Th[r] ...
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