ArticleJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2022
Incremental value of epicardial fat volume to coronary artery calcium score and traditional risk factors for predicting myocardial ischemia in patients with suspected coronary artery disease.
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- Application of Epicardial Fat Volume for Identifying Hemodynamically Significant Coronary Artery Disease: A Retrospective Study.International journal of general medicine · 2026Article
- Association of epicardial fat volume index with coronary artery disease phenotypes based on anatomical and functional imaging: a linkage with the severity of coronary artery disease.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2025Article
- Ectopic adipose tissue in subsistence populations with minimal coronary disease, large left atria, and very low rates of atrial fibrillation.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2025Article
- Machine learning to predict hemodynamically significant CAD based on traditional risk factors, coronary artery calcium and epicardial fat volume.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2023Article
- Association of pericoronary adipose tissue with atrial fibrillation recurrence after ablation based on computed tomographic angiography.Japanese journal of radiology · 2023Article
- Association of epicardial adipose tissue volume with increased risk of hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Gender Differences in Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Plaque Composition by Coronary CT Angiography: Association with Cardiovascular Outcome.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Impact of epicardial adipose tissue volume on hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease in Chinese patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Prediction of myocardial ischemia in coronary heart disease patients using a CCTA-Based radiomic nomogram.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Epicardial fat volume, an independent risk factor for major adverse cardiovascular events, had an incremental prognostic value to myocardial perfusion imaging in Chinese populations with suspected or known coronary artery disease with a normal left ventricular ejection fraction.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Coronary artery calcium or epicardial fat: Different markers for different people.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2022Article
- Additive value of epicardial adipose tissue quantification to coronary CT angiography-derived plaque characterization and CT fractional flow reserve for the prediction of lesion-specific ischemia.European radiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundEpicardial fat volume (EFV) has been reported to be associated with coronary artery disease (CAD). CAD is the leading cause of myocardial ischemia and myocardial ischemia is closely related to major adverse cardiovascular events. We hypothesized that EFV could provide incremental value to traditional risk factors and coronary artery calcium score (CACS) in predicting myocardial ischemia in Chinese patients with suspected CAD.
methodsWe retrospectively studied 204 Chinese patients with suspected CAD who underwent single-photon emission computerized tomography-myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT-MPI) combined with computed tomography (CT). Pericardial contours were manually defined, and EFV was automatically calculated. A reversible perfusion defect with summed difference score (SDS) ≥ 2 was defined as myocardial ischemia.
resultsThe myocardial ischemia group had higher EFV than normal MPI group (137.80 ± 34.95cm
conclusionsIn Chinese patients with suspected CAD, EFV was significantly associated with myocardial ischemia, and improved prediction of myocardial ischemia above traditional risk factors and CACS.
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