Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 29-37 , January 2010

Noninvasive quantitative evaluation of coronary artery stent patency using 64-row multidetector computed tomography

  • Murrad J. Abdelkarim, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 400, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Naser Ahmadi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 400, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
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  • Ambarish Gopal, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 400, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
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  • Yasmin Hamirani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 400, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
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  • Ronald P. Karlsberg, MD, FACP, FACC

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Medical Group, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
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  • Matthew J. Budoff, MD, FACC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 400, Torrance, CA 90509, USA

Received 28 May 2009 ,Accepted 23 October 2009.

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 Conflict of interest: Dr. Budoff is on the GE Speaker Bureau. The remaining authors report no conflicts of interest.

 There was no source of funding for this study.

PII: S1934-5925(09)00524-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2009.10.014

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 29-37 , January 2010

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