Carotid ultrasonography improves residual risk stratification in guidelines-defined high cardiovascular risk patients.
Georgios GeorgiopoulosGeorgios MavraganisDimitrios DelialisStelios GeorgiouEvmorfia AivaliotiRaphael PatrasIoannis PetropoulosMaria-Angeliki DimopoulouLasthenis AngelidakisAlexandros SianisDimitrios BampatsiasAnna DimoulaEleni ManetaMarinos KosmopoulosConstantine VardavasKonstantinos StellosDimitrios DelialisPublished in: European journal of preventive cardiology (2022)
Integration of carotid ultrasonography in guidelines-defined risk stratification may identify patients at very high-risk in need for further residual risk reduction or at very low probability for events.