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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lee HY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4902555 | biostudies-other | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Medicine 20160501 19
No study has been published on aortic valve calcification (AVC) extent at lung cancer screening low-dose CT (LDCT) and its relationship with aortic stenosis (AS). The purpose of this study was to estimate the cutoff value of AVC on LDCT for detecting AS in asymptomatic Asian subjects. Six thousand three hundred thirty-eight subjects (mean age, 55.9 years ± 8.6) self-referred to health-promotion center underwent LDCT, coronary calcium scoring CT (CSCT), and echocardiography. AVC was quantified us ...[more]