TITLE:
Cardiac Computed Tomography for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis
AUTHORS:
Ryotaro Wake, Hidetaka Iida, Hirohito Ogata, Hiroaki Takeshita, Takanori Kusuyama, Hiroaki Kohno, Shinichi Shimodozono, Kenei Shimada, Minoru Yoshiyama
KEYWORDS:
Cardiac CT; Coronary Atherosclerosis
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Clinical Medicine,
Vol.4 No.3,
March
28,
2013
ABSTRACT: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is
a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in developed countries, although
percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass grafting have developed
recently. Appropriate diagnosis will improve the prevention, treatment, and
care of all patients. We could diagnose only calcification in the coronary
arteries with the past computed tomography. Recently, multislice computed
tomography has been already accepted as an efficient non-invasive tool for the
detection of coronary artery stenosis. We get to estimate the
coronary artery stenosis with cardiac computed tomography. We discuss the usefulness of
cardiac computed tomography for the risk stratification of coronary artery atherosclerosis.