Coronary atherosclerosis burden is not advanced in patients with β-thalassemia despite premature extracardiac atherosclerosis: a coronary artery calcium score and carotid intima-media thickness study

BACKGROUND: Thalassemic patients demonstrate an increased rate of extracardiac vascular complications and increased carotid wall intima-media thickness (cIMT), but very low prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD). We investigated the atheroma burden by assessing the coronary artery calcium (CAC)...

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Autores principales: Hahalis, George, Zacharioglou, Evangelia, Xanthopoulou, Ioanna, Koniari, Ioanna, Kalogeropoulou, Chistina, Tsota, Irene, Rigopoulou, Aspasia, Diamantopoulos, Athanasios, Gkizas, Vasilios, Davlouros, Periklis, Akinosoglou, Karolina, Leopoulou, Marianna, Gogos, Charalampos, Alexopoulos, Dimitrios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Science Press 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4854955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27168742
http://dx.doi.org/10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2016.02.006

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