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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2014 Feb 20;34(4):724–736. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.113.302642

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Coronary calcification and plaque morphology in humans. A is a radiograph of the coronary arteries following removal from the heart. B shows the type of radiographic calcification in different plaques. Radiographic calcification was typed according to the classification of Friedrich et al (Friedrich GJ, et al. Am Heart J 1994;128:435–41) and in brief absence of calcification, speckled, and fragmented (linear or wide, single focus of calcium >2 mm in diameter), or diffuse (≥5mm segment of continuous calcium). Bar graph in C shows mean area of calcification in different plaque morphologies in sudden coronary death victims. T-bars indicate SEM. AIT=adaptive intimal thickening; FA=fibroatheroma; LAD=left anterior descending artery; LCX=left circumflex artery; LD=left diagonal artery; LM=left main coronary artery; LOM=left obtuse marginal branch; PIT=pathologic intimal thickening; RCA=right coronary artery; TCFA=thin-cap fibroatheroma. (B and C are reproduced with permission from Burke AP, et al. Herz. 2001;26:239–244.)