Background: Coronary low-attenuation plaque (LAP) burden is a strong predictor of myocardial infarction in patients with stable chest pain. We aimed to assess the relationship between LAP burden and circulating levels of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT), and to explore the potential underlying etiology in patients undergoing clinically indicated coronary CT angiography (CCTA).
Methods: A comprehensive metabolic and lipid panel, as well as C-reactive protein (CRP) and hs-cTnT tests were obtained from consecutive patients with stable chest pain at the time of CCTA.
Thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) of the aortic arch has started to spread in recent years. We present our initial experience with TEVAR involving supra-aortic branches using parallel and branched grafts. Parallel grafts are typically used in emergency cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContemporary reconstruction algorithms yield the potential of reducing radiation exposure by denoising coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) datasets. We aimed to assess the reliability of coronary artery calcium score (CACS) measurements with an advanced adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR-CV) and model-based adaptive filter (MBAF2) designed for a dedicated cardiac CT scanner by comparing them to the gold-standard filtered back projection (FBP) calculations. We analyzed non-contrast coronary CT images of 404 consecutive patients undergoing clinically indicated CCTA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatogastroenterology
May 2012
Background/aims: The prevalence of H. pylori differs significantly both between and within countries. In general infection correlates inversely to socioeconomic conditions.
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