Atherosclerosis causes the smooth, elastic lining of the coronary arteries to become hard, stiff, and swollen because of ...

Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) testing measures calcium deposits in the coronary artery walls using a CT scanner. It helps ...

The deposition of this mineral on plaques in our heart arteries can contribute to chest pain and heart attacks.

Plaque is a fatty substance made up of ... a dye into your blood vessel to help doctors see obstructions with X-rays or ...

CT coronary angiogram with multiplanar reformation in the axial view showing nonsignificant calcified plaque in the left main stem and a significant noncalcified stenosis of the proximal left ...

"If appropriate therapeutic responses are instituted, lung CT findings could affect survival from 2 leading causes of death: lung cancer and coronary artery disease," the authors write. The ...

A recent prospective study carried out in Korea and the US investigated the location of plaque ruptures in native coronary arteries with the use of three-vessel intravascular ultrasound (IVUS).

Lung cancer screening with low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) may detect more ... a rupture of an atheromatous plaque at any stage of the spectrum of coronary artery disease.

Objective Excess cholesterol loading on arterial macrophages is linked to foam cell formation, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the effect of changes in ...