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Cardiac Calcifications

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Calcifications in the heart are frequent fi ndings on chest CT that indicate abnormal processes, such as atherosclerosis, degenerative or reparative change of the affected structures. Calcifi cations in the coronary arteries are probably the most well known cardiac calcifi cations. They are an indirect indicator of the total amount of atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary arteries (Rumberger et al. 1995) and have been shown to be an independent risk factor for developing cardiovascular complications (Pletcher et al. 2004; Shaw et al. 2003; Taylor et al. 2005; Vliegenthart et al. 2005).

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Rutten, A., Prokop, M. (2009). Cardiac Calcifications. In: Rémy-Jardin, M., Rémy, J. (eds) Integrated Cardiothoracic Imaging with MDCT. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72387-5_19

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