Early detection of premature subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus patients

Objective: To elucidate early coronary atherosclerotic changes in premenopausal systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) female patients without clinical cardiovascular manifestation using a 64-slice Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) scan to detect coronary calcification and measure coronary calci...

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Main Authors: Khaled Mohamed Said Othman, Naglaa Youssef Assaf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2013-12-01
Series:The Egyptian Heart Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110260812001445