Women with Coronary Artery Wall Thickness at Risk for Heart Disease (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

Women with Coronary Artery Wall Thickness at Risk for Heart Disease

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Coronary vessel wall CT angiographic images (multiplanar reformatted stretch view). Images in a 46-year-old asymptomatic woman show, A, measured vessel wall thickness of 1.3 mm (black arrows) and, B, noncalcified plaque (white arrow) in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery. Coronary CT angiographic images in the left anterior descending artery in a 44-year-old asymptomatic woman show, C, thicker coronary vessel wall (black arrows) and, D, coronary artery disease (white arrows).

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