Results from the PROSPECT clinical trial shed new light on the types of vulnerable plaque that are most likely to cause sudden, unexpected adverse cardiac events, and on the ability to identify them ...

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Cardiovascular Research Foundation. "Coronary Imaging Techniques Helps To Identify Plaques Likely To Cause Heart Attacks." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 September 2009. <www.sciencedaily.com / ...

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, thus the intense interest in a screening test that would allow early identification of coronary artery disease in its ...

Chicago, IL - The Coronary CT Angiography Evaluation For Clinical Outcomes International Multicenter (CONFIRM) registry provides unprecedented statistical power to help answer important questions ...

SELECTIVE coronary angiography has become an invaluable means of distinguishing syndromes due to coronary-artery disease from those arising from other causes. Though much speculation has been made ...

Coronary plaque rupture is known to be a major cause of sudden coronary death, but it is also commonly seen in non-coronary sudden death, and can be a clinically silent cause of plaque progression.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Coronary CTA is as useful as direct invasive coronary angiography when evaluating stable chest pain. Coronary CT ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although various studies have established the prognostic value of coronary artery calcium scoring for predicting ...