Prevalence of thoracic aortic aneurysm in patients referred for no/low-charge coronary artery calcium scoring: Insights from the CLARIFY registry

• Main Authors: Tasveer Khawaja (Author), Scott E Janus (Author), Nour Tashtish (Author), Matthew Janko (Author), Cristian Baeza (Author), Robert Gilkeson (Author), Sadeer G. Al-Kindi (Author), Sanjay Rajagopalan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Low-dose cardiac-gated chest CTs allow for simultaneous evaluation of coronary artery calcification and aortic size. We sought to evaluate the prevalence of thoracic aortic dilation (TAD) and thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) in a large cohort of patients undergoing coronary artery calcium (...