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How new imaging techniques can aid in defining the cardiovascular profile of the high-risk patient.

Il Giornale di chirurgia, ISSN: 0391-9005, Vol: 33, Issue: 11-12, Page: 429-434
2012
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Cardiovascular prevention has been developed in the last eight years producing an ever increasing amount of data requiring frequent updating. Studies using angiography to determine change in coronary obstruction have indicated progression, stabilization, or regression of coronary lesions associated with changes in plasma lipids and lipoproteins. Moreover, the guidelines on arterial hypertension published in 2007 listed the risk factors affecting prognosis but even by 2009 an update modified not only the list of risks, but even the philosophy behind the thought process which introduced as essential element in the prognosis of hypertension the ascertained existence of a damaged organ. Thus, the documentation of atherosclerotic vascular disease (plaques) and the quantification of its extension in the arterial tree became a determinant in the definition of cardiovascular risk. Magnetic Resonance (MRI) and coronary computed tomography (coro CT) applied to the heart and large vessels are the most promising methods.

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S. Bosi; A. Barbieri; M. Baldelli; S. Censi; M. Naldi; A. Squeri; C. Morozzi; C. Stefanutti

Medicine

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