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Accelerated subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia
LA Neefjes, GJ ten Kate, R Alexia, K Nieman... - Atherosclerosis, 2011 - Elsevier Objectives We determined the extent, severity, distribution and type of coronary plaques in cardiac asymptomatic patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) using computed tomography (CT). Background FH patients have accelerated progression of coronary ...
Fig. 2. Distribution of presence and severity of coronary plaque in the proximal, mid and distal segments of the coronary tree. LAD, left anterior descending coronary artery; LCX, left circumflex coronary artery; LM, left main; RCA, right coronary artery. The distal RCA comprises segment 3, the posterior descending artery and the postero-lateral artery. The mid LAD includes segment 7 and the first diagonal, the distal LAD includes segment 8 and the second diagonal. The proximal LCX comprises segment 11 and the intermediate branch; the mid LCX segment 13 and the first marginal obtuse branch; the distal LCX includes segment 15 and the second obtuse marginal branch.
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