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Coronary CT Angiography and Carotid MRI Improve Phenotyping of Disease Extent Compared with ACC/AHA Risk Score Alone.

Ashley ChorathYounhee ChoiEvrim B TurkbeyMark A AhlmanChristopher T SibleySongtao LiuDavid A BluemkeVeit Sandfort
Published in: Radiology. Cardiothoracic imaging (2020)
Approximately 25% of subjects had large discrepancies between ACC/AHA risk and plaque burden at imaging. These results suggest that clinical risk score models alone do not fully reflect the amount of atherosclerotic disease present.© RSNA, 2020See also the commentary by Truong and Villines in this issue.
Keyphrases
  • coronary artery disease
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • coronary artery
  • high resolution
  • contrast enhanced
  • mass spectrometry
  • left ventricular
  • atrial fibrillation
  • aortic valve
  • breast cancer risk