Why the study?
Does the Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) correlate with plaque burden measured by IVUS in patients with coronary heart disease and normal LMCA?
Population
Patients with coronary heart disease and angiographically normal left main coronary artery (LMCA)
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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CAVI may reflect LMCA plaque burden noninvasively; hypothesis-generating for risk assessment, should not yet change practice.
Does the Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) correlate with plaque burden measured by IVUS in patients with coronary heart disease and normal LMCA?
The cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) serves as a noninvasive indicator that significantly correlates with coronary plaque burden as measured by IVUS.
Horinaka et al. (2011) studied this question.