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 SandfortPublished 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.