Transesophageal Echocardiographic Detection of Thoracic Aortic Plaque Could Noninvasively Predict Significant Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

Transesophageal Echocardiographic Detection of Thoracic Aortic Plaque Could Noninvasively Predict Significant Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

OBJECTIVE Previous pathologic and roentgenographic studies have suggested a relation between aortic plaque and coronary artery disease but have lacked clinical utility. The study was undertaken to elucidate whether atherosclerotic aortic plaque detected by transesophageal echocardiography can be a clinically useful marker for significant obstructive coronary artery disease. METHODS Clinical a...

Use of transesophageal echocardiography to predict significant coronary artery disease in aortic stenosis.

STUDY OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to examine if the use of multiplane transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) could predict the absence or the presence of significant coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with aortic stenosis. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING University hospital. PATIENTS Clinical, angiographic features and TEE findings were prospectively analyzed in 132 conse...

Coronary artery calcification: does it predict obstructive coronary artery disease?

Calcification of the coronary arteries plays a key role in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis. Coronary calcification is an active process culminating in extracellular matrix deposition of calcium by osteoblast-like cells that has some resemblance to bone formation [1]. Subintimal coronary calcification is almost exclusively associated with the presence of coronary atherosclerosis and is co...

Obstructive sleep apnea and the severity of coronary artery disease

Background: It has been implicated that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease including stroke, myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease (CAD) and hypertension. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between OSA and severity of atherosclerosis assessed by angiography. Methods: This study included 337 patients ...

Detection of clinically significant coronary artery disease in hypertensive patients. Echocardiographic study.