Leslee J. Shaw

TL;DR: Coronary computed tomography angiography provides incremental anatomical data to clinical risk assessment to help determine the prognosis of patients after CABG to help identify those patients at highest risk.

TL;DR: LV functional parameters determined by gated FDG PET have incremental prognostic value over viability information in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy, and data suggest that patients with residual viability and advanced cardiac remodeling are at high clinical risk.

TL;DR: CVD repair strategies should ideally be tested first in females to have the best chance of success for proof-of-concept, and sex-specific pharmacogenomic studies should be included in pharmacological development.

TL;DR: Athrosclerosis imaging modalities such as coronary computed tomography, carotid ultrasound, cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, and intravascular ultrasound each possess specific imaging abilities and inter-test characteristics that enable their serial use as intermediate endpoints in clinical trials and, increasingly, in individual patient management.

TL;DR: CAC progression was greater and event-free survival lower in patients with DM compared to controls in proportion to the extent of CAC progression, suggesting that CAC progressions is an independent predictor of all-cause mortality in subjects with diabetes mellitus.