Small whole heart volume predicts cardiovascular events in patients with stable chest pain: insights from the PROMISE trial.
Foldyna BorekRoman ZeleznikParastou EslamiThomas MayrhoferJan-Erik ScholtzMaros FerencikDaniel O BittnerNandini M MeyersohnStefan B PuchnerHamed EmamiPatricia A PellikkaHugo J W L AertsPamela S DouglasMichael T LuUdo HoffmannPublished in: European radiology (2021)
• Heart volume is easily assessable from non-contrast cardiac computed tomography. • Small heart volume may be an imaging marker of major adverse cardiac events independent and incremental to traditional cardiovascular risk factors and established CT measures of CAD. • Heart volume may improve cardiovascular risk stratification in patients with non-obstructive CAD.
Keyphrases
- cardiovascular events
- coronary artery disease
- cardiovascular risk factors
- computed tomography
- heart failure
- cardiovascular disease
- atrial fibrillation
- contrast enhanced
- left ventricular
- magnetic resonance imaging
- positron emission tomography
- clinical trial
- magnetic resonance
- metabolic syndrome
- image quality
- dual energy
- type diabetes
- mass spectrometry
- machine learning
- photodynamic therapy