Prognostic Application of Thoracic Aortic Calcium Scoring for Adverse Clinical Outcome Risk in Elderly Patients with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy.
In-Jeong ChoSeo Young SongSang-Eun LeeChi Young ShimGeu Ru HongNamsik ChungPublished in: Korean circulation journal (2017)
TACS provides robust predictive utility for a composite of cardiovascular events and cardiac death in persons with LVH. This finding was less pronounced in those with a relatively healthy myocardium, defined by the absence of LVH.
Keyphrases
- cardiovascular events
- left ventricular
- coronary artery disease
- cardiovascular disease
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- heart failure
- acute myocardial infarction
- aortic stenosis
- left atrial
- mitral valve
- spinal cord
- pulmonary artery
- coronary artery
- type diabetes
- spinal cord injury
- pulmonary hypertension