Epicardial fat volume measured on nongated chest CT is a predictor of coronary artery disease.
Yasunori NagayamaNaoki NakamuraRyo ItataniSeitaro OdaShinichiro KusunokiHideo TakahashiTakeshi NakauraDaisuke UtsunomiyaYasuyuki YamashitaPublished in: European radiology (2019)
• Despite the absence of ECG gating, the EFV on NCCT provides nearly perfect inter-observer reproducibility and shows excellent correlation with measurements on gated CCTA. • EFV on nongated-NCCT may serve as an independent biomarker for predicting coronary artery disease with accuracy equivalent to that of EFV on gated CCTA.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- cardiovascular events
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- computed tomography
- adipose tissue
- image quality
- dual energy
- heart rate variability
- contrast enhanced
- heart rate
- magnetic resonance imaging
- aortic stenosis
- type diabetes
- fatty acid
- heart failure
- acute coronary syndrome
- left ventricular
- atrial fibrillation
- aortic valve