American College of Cardiology

APRIL 8, 2024

PCI performed preventively in patients with high-risk vulnerable plaques was found to be superior to optimal medical therapy alone in preventing a serious cardiac event, according to the results of the PREVENT trial, the largest study on preventive PCI to date, presented during a Late-Breaking Clinical Trial session during ACC.24

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Plaque Article 75

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Atherosclerosis is an insidious and progressive inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of lipid-laden plaques within the intima of arterial walls with potentially devastating consequences. However, despite a heterogenous substrate underlying coronary thrombosis, treatment remains identical.

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Plaque Thrombosis Atherosclerosis Article 40

American College of Cardiology

JUNE 18, 2024

Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC discuss insights from data and studies involving plaque burden, morphology and flow. In this interview, Andrew Choi, MD, FACC and Clyde W.

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Plaque Article 53

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

JANUARY 8, 2024

Atherosclerotic plaque accounts for major adverse cardiovascular events due to its vulnerability. The M1 and M2 macrophages are implicated in progression and regression of plaque, respectively. However, the therapeutic targets related M2 macrophages still remain largely elusive. or 0.001), respectively. All rights reserved.

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Plaque Article 52

DAIC

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Data confirm the use of FFR CT and Plaque Analysis helps assess long-term risks, informing more personalized and effective treatment plans for patients with coronary artery disease. The prospective data with long-term follow-up in ADVANCE-DK alongside Plaque Analysis data gave us far more than that. 27, 2024 — HeartFlow, Inc.

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Plaque Outcomes Coronary Artery Disease Chest Pain 52

International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences

JULY 11, 2024

The Award will correspond to articles published in 2023. The Award will be given to the national authors of the best Original Article published in the journals ABC Cardiol, IJCS, ABC Imagem, and ABC HF in 2023. Awards granted: a) Plaque for each awarded article. b) Registration for the next subsequent congress.

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Article Plaque Heart Failure Cardiomyopathy 52

International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences

JULY 18, 2023

The Award will refer to articles published in 2021 and 2022. The Award will be given to the Brazilian authors of the best Original Article published in the ABC Cardiol and IJCS journals for the years 2021 and 2022, and to Brazilian authors of the best Original Article published in the ABC Imagem and ABC HF journals in 2022.

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Article Plaque Heart Failure Research 52

DAIC

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He is the author of over 150 articles, book chapters, abstracts and other publications on advanced imaging technologies. and journal article authors Udo Hoffman, M.D., With Plaque Features Associated with False Positives. Earls is a founding member and one of the first Fellows of the Society of Cardiovascular CT. James Min, M.D.

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Coronary Artery Disease Ischemia Atherosclerosis Cardiovascular Imaging 103

Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 3, 2024

I have now written over 110 articles, and my initial nine newsletter subscribers have grown to over 20,000. But while each article provides a lot of value, many of you have asked if I would write a book that provides a simple, sequential series of content explaining heart disease and how to reduce risk. 33 years of age.

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Heart attacks Heart Attack Blood Pressure Risk Factors 92

Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 1, 2023

This article is part 2 of a series on cardiac CT. If you have not yet read it, I suggest doing so before reading the remainder of this article. I've included the article here. A CTCA provides much more anatomical detail and can identify advanced plaque often missed by CT Coronary Artery Calcium Score scans alone.

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Coronary Angiogram Plaque Coronary Artery Disease Chest Pain 52

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

DECEMBER 2, 2023

This has important clinical significance , as many successfully lysed STEMI patient might have minimal segments of dissection/deep plaque fissures. , Image courtesy : An amazing learning resource by Charles Bruen, MD at [link] Reference A best review article on SCAD from NEJM Esther S.H. Is plaque fissure painful ?

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SCAD Plaque Angina Physiology 52

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Our study showed that an increased NLR was associated with ISNA and in-stent plaque fragility in patients with ISR following DES implantation. Our study showed that an increased NLR was associated with ISNA and in-stent plaque fragility in patients with ISR following DES implantation. Copyright © 2024 The Author(s).

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Stents Stent Plaque Article 40

Physiologically Speaking

APRIL 10, 2024

people from the general population), coronary artery calcium scores (CACS) are higher, indicating more calcification and the presence of atherosclerotic plaques. Calcified plaques are known to be more stable and less prone to rupture and lead to a heart attack. When comparing athletes to control groups (i.e., hours per week).

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Atherosclerosis Plaque Exercise Cardiovascular Disease 52

American College of Cardiology

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The goal of the PACMAN-AMI trial was to demonstrate the efficacy of early administration of alirocumab on plaque characteristics among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

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Myocardial Infarction Atherosclerosis Plaque Article 61

Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, most adults will start to develop advanced plaque in their coronary arteries early in life. By age 66, more than half of all females will have evidence of advanced plaque in their coronary arteries, as seen on a CT calcium score. Coronary atherosclerosis, as evidenced by an abnormal CAC score, is a measure of advanced plaque.

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Heart Disease Blood Pressure Dementia Atherosclerosis 96

EMS 12-Lead

AUGUST 18, 2024

I interpreted the ECG as VT with two primary etiological possibilities: 1. Abrupt plaque ulceration of Type 1 ACS leading to VT. link] [link] Here’s a recent article from the JACC that not only summarizes previous WCT ECG research (eg, Brugada, Vereckei, etc), but presents a novel algorithm that may perform better.

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Tachycardia Blog RN Echocardiogram 59

American College of Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Is coronary artery calcium (CAC) density by computed tomography (CT) inversely associated with plaque vulnerability and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events (coronary heart disease [CHD] and stroke)?

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Plaque Cardiovascular Disease Heart Disease Stroke 56

American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Typically, ischemia is associated with epicardial coronary artery obstruction caused by atherosclerotic plaque. Ischemic cardiovascular disease (IHD) continues to be a significant public health problem in the U.S.

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Public Health Plaque Ischemia Cardiovascular Disease 49

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In a recent article (J Electrocardiol this year, see reference below), peak trop onin I levels in takotsubo presenting with ST Elevation were median 1.02 Note 2: This article fails to specify whether it was troponin I or T, but I contacted the institution and they used exclusively troponin I during that time period.

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Plaque Chest Pain Thrombosis Stenosis 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 19, 2020

If the arrest was caused by acute MI due to plaque rupture, then the diagnosis is MINOCA. Here is my comment on MINOCA: "Non-obstructive coronary disease" does not necessarily imply "no plaque rupture with thrombus." They often cannot even be recognized as culprits, as fissured or ulcerated plaque. FFR can be useful.

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Defibrillator Circulation Plaque Cardiac Arrest 52

Stroke Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This article describes the pathway from gene discovery to novel therapeutic approaches that are now entering man.HDAC9expression is elevated in human atherosclerotic plaque, while in animal and cellular models, reducing HDAC9 (histone deacetylase 9) protein is associated with reduced disease.

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Stroke Strokes Atherosclerosis Coronary Artery Disease 40

Dr. Paddy Barrett

JUNE 21, 2024

Therefore, if someone presents with an event earlier than this age, they likely have been building up plaque for a considerable period prior to this. If you don’t know what those are, I suggest you go back to the many prior articles I have written on the topic) But let’s assume you have these down. What do you do next?

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Heart Disease Heart Attack Heart attacks Coronary Artery Disease 67

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

AUGUST 26, 2022

26th August 2022 And so, after a great deal of faffing about, my article on cardiovascular disease ‘Assessing cardiovascular disease: looking beyond cholesterol’ has been made free to view. Writing an article for a medical journal is not that difficult. As for allowing the article to be open access … don’t go there.

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Cardiovascular Disease Cholesterol Article Plaque 40

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

JANUARY 8, 2024

While the total body seems to do little in determining cholesterol levels, what is more scientifically shocking is slope of the curve between blood LDL levels and plaque burden is rarely linear. LDL is obviously a target against atherosclerosis. Mind you LDL constitutes.000025% 000025% of total fat. Let us use it maximum.

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Cholesterol Atherosclerosis Plaque Physiology 52

Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Arteries generally narrow and occlude for one of two reasons: The progressive accumulation of plaque. A plaque ruptures, and a clot forms in the artery, thereby occluding it. There are the ‘garden variety’ heart attacks whereby a plaque ruptures in the coronary artery, called a spontaneous heart attack.

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Stents Stent Heart attacks Heart Attack 52

BoardVitals - Cardiovascular

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You can find the answer and explanation at the end of this article. Before I explain what exactly takotsubo cardiomyopathy is, see if you can answer this BoardVitals cardiology board review question. Cardiology Board Review Question A 48-year-old female with no known medical history presents with acute substernal chest pain.

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Cardiomyopathy Chest Pain Heart Attack Heart attacks 52

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

A significantly higher proportion of patients in the ISR with non-target lesion progression (N-TLP) group exhibited lipid plaque formation compared to the ISR without N-TLP group (69.0% The mechanism of ISR was emamined through qualitative and quantitative analysis of OCT imaging. versus 39.8%, P < 0.001). versus 39.8%, P < 0.001).

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Atherosclerosis Stents Stent Plaque 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 31, 2018

Post by Smith, with short article by Angie Lobo ( [link] ), a third year intermal medicine resident at Abbott Northwestern Hospital Case A 30-something woman with no past history, who is very fit and athletic, presented with 1.5 hours of substernal chest pressure. It was non-radiating and without other associated symptoms except for nausea.

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SCAD Chest Pain Myocardial Infarction Ischemia 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

As an aside, the LCx OMI is a type 2 event, since it is due to supply-demand mismatch from thrombus, and not due to atherosclerotic plaque rupture or erosion). The September 27, 2019 post — for the Rowlands & Moore article with the above-noted formulas for recognizing the “culprit” extremity. The November 10, 2020 post — for PTA.

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Chest Pain Blog Critical Care Arrhythmia 67

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Aslanger added in the limitations in his article: " Theoretically, an isolated basal inferoseptal infarction or an acute inferior MI in the presence of previous infarctions that may change the orientation of lesion vector can also cause a similar picture. Could this be Septal STEMI (STE in V1 and aVR, with reciprocal ST depression in V4-V6?),

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Ischemia Pulmonary STEMI Chest Pain 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here is full text of this article. He was taken to the cath lab and underwent emergent intervention: Thrombotic stenosis of the proximal RCA (95% with evidence of plaque rupture) is the culprit for the patient's inferoposterior STEMI. Case continued EMS immediately transported, activated the cath lab and gave 324 mg aspirin en route.

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Bradycardia Cardiogenic Shock STEMI Ischemia 40

Dr. Paddy Barrett

JULY 12, 2024

If you have high LDL cholesterol and are unsure what that means for your risk of heart disease, this article is for you. A higher cumulative LDL cholesterol exposure equals a higher likelihood of plaque in the coronary arteries, known as atherosclerosis. But the more plaque you have, the higher the risk of a heart attack.

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