Multifocal Atherosclerotic Noninvasive Findings in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

In most papers on atherosclerosis the clinical importance of symptoms in one vascular bed tends to prevail: patients present primarily with symptoms of ischemic heart (IHD), or cerebrovascular (CVD), or arterial obliterative disease (AOD) [1–4]. Although the clinical significance of asymptomatic arterial lesions is not always immediate, it is important to know the natural history of the disseminated atherosclerotic disease and relate it to risk factors [5–11].