As Heart Awareness Month unfolds, local cardiologist Dr. Khaled Khalaf sheds light on the significance of knowing your ...

Andra Lalli, 65, leads an active lifestyle. She enjoys going to the gym and has taught fitness classes for years — which is ...

February is Heart Health Month and it is the perfect time for Rio Grande Valley residents to take control of their cardiac health. One way of determining heart ...

Background Our study aimed to investigate the relationship between the geometric distribution of plaque calcification and the occurrence of postprocedural hypotension following carotid artery stenting ...

They assessed the annual change in total and non-calcified PAV, the presence of high-risk plaques (defined as those exhibiting at least two of the following characteristics: positive remodeling ...

The report by Wayhs et al. [11] supports the concept that an extensive plaque burden, indicated by high calcium scores, increases the risk for cardiac events. However, it does not address the ...

In recent years, it has become clear that carotid IMT, coronary calcification and carotid plaque reflect biologically and genetically different aspects of the atherosclerotic process, and will ...

We examine a machine-learning approach using eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) to classify carotid plaques as vulnerable or stable using non-calcified plaque features and calcification morphology.