| Summary: | <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">: multidetector computed tomography plays a fundamental role in the detection of hard coronary artery plaques.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Objective</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">: to describe the presence of calcified atheromatous plaque in the coronary arteries of patients from San Cristóbal, state of Táchira, Venezuela, treated between January and December 2018.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Methods</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">: a retrospective descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with patients who visited the “Medarda Piñero” High Technology Diagnostic Center, of the aforementioned place and during the period declared in the objective. The study population was made up of those who presented some type of modifiable cardiovascular risk without demonstrated cardiovascular disease.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Results</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">: the average age of the patients was 56.3 years; the most frequent associated risk factor was dyslipidemia (97 cases, 65,9 %); 48 patients (32,6 %) had no calcified plaque, half of the 40 to 50 age group was in this situation. The most affected artery was the left anterior descending artery, with 35 cases (35,35 %). Severe plaque was seen more frequently in the group over 70 years (6,22 %), in 54,54 % of them affecting the right coronary artery; all of them were patients with a cardiovascular disease not diagnosed so far.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.14cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Conclusions</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">: the presence of calcified atheromatous plaque was characterized, existing in more than half of the sample under study, using multidetector computed tomography.</span></span></span></p>
|
|---|