Luca Saba, Riccardo Cau, Alessandro Murgia, Andrew N Nicolaides, Max Wintermark, Mauricio Castillo, Daniel Staub, Stavros K Kakkos, Qi Yang, Kosmas I Paraskevas, Chun Yuan, Myriam Edjlali, Roberto Sanfilippo, Jeroen Hendrikse, Elias Johansson, Mahmud Mossa-Basha, Niranjan Balu, Martin Dichgans, David Saloner, Daniel Bos, H Rolf Jager, Ross Naylor, Gavino Faa, Jasjit S Suri, Justin Costello, Dorothee P Auer, J Scott Mcnally, Leo H Bonati, Valentina Nardi, Aad van der Lugt, Maura Griffin, Bruce A Wasserman, M Eline Kooi, Jonathan Gillard, Giuseppe Lanzino, Dimitri P Mikhailidis, Daniel M Mandell, John C Benson, Dianne H K van Dam-Nolen, Anna Kopczak, Jae W Song, Ajay Gupta, J Kevin DeMarco, Seemant Chaturvedi, Renu Virmani, Thomas S Hatsukami, Martin Brown, Alan R Moody, Peter Libby, Andreas Schindler, Tobias Saam
BACKGROUND: Carotid artery atherosclerosis is highly prevalent in the general population and is a well-established risk factor for acute ischemic stroke. Although the morphological characteristics of vulnerable plaques are well recognized, there is a lack of consensus in reporting and interpreting carotid plaque features. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper is to establish a consistent and comprehensive approach for imaging and reporting carotid plaque by introducing the Plaque-RADS (Reporting and Data System) score...
January 2024: JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging