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Coronary Artery Plaque

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CT angiography allows assessment of plaque of the coronary artery wall before luminal narrowing develops. In symptomatic patients with suspected luminal stenosis, identification and characterization of nonobstructive plaque provides prognostic data incremental to the evaluation of luminal stenosis alone. This chapter describes the rationale and clinical approach to plaque imaging and evaluation.

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  1. Division of Radiology, Cardiovascular Imaging and Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA

    P. Schoenhagen MD

  2. Memorial Heart Center, Iwate Medical University, 1-2-1 ChuoDori, 020-8505, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

    H. Niinuma MD, PhD

  3. Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 4500 San Pablo Road, 32224, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    T. Gerber MD, PhD

  4. Institut für Radiologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany

    M. Dewey Prof. Dr. med.

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Schoenhagen, P., Niinuma, H., Gerber, T., Dewey, M. (2014). Coronary Artery Plaque. In: Cardiac CT. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41883-9_17

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