Sixty-four-slice CT angiography demonstrates a higher prevalence of NCPs with vulnerable characteristics in patients with ACS as compared with stable clinical presentation.
Increased VAT area was significantly associated with NCP burden and vulnerable characteristics identified by CTA. Our findings may explain the excessive cardiovascular risk in patients with visceral adiposity, and support the potential role of CTA to improve risk stratification in such patients.
Despite some limitations, 16-slice MSCT is sufficiently useful for assessment of various coronary stents in patients and can detect in-stent restenoses of assessable stents with high accuracy in comparison to CAG.
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