Myocardial bridging on coronary CTA: an innocent bystander or a culprit in myocardial infarction?

R Nakanishi, R Rajani, Y Ishikawa, T Ishii… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Myocardial bridging describes the clinical entity whereby a segment of coronary artery is
either partially or completely covered by surrounding myocardium. It represents the most …

Testosterone treatment and coronary artery plaque volume in older men with low testosterone

…, TM Gill, AM Matsumoto, ME Molitch, R Nakanishi… - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Recent studies have yielded conflicting results as to whether testosterone
treatment increases cardiovascular risk. Objective To test the hypothesis that testosterone …

How accurate is atherosclerosis imaging by coronary computed tomography angiography?

R Nakanishi, S Motoyama, J Leipsic… - Journal of cardiovascular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Invasive coronary plaque imaging such as intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence
tomography has been widely used to observe culprit or non-culprit coronary atherosclerosis, …

Coronary artery calcification

K Osawa, R Nakanishi, M Budoff - Global heart, 2016 - Elsevier
Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is an established marker of subclinical atherosclerosis
and an independent predictor of future coronary heart disease in the asymptomatic primary …

Improved accuracy of myocardial perfusion SPECT for detection of coronary artery disease by machine learning in a large population

…, D Dey, V Vahistha, A Shalev, R Nakanishi… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective We aimed to improve the diagnostic accuracy of myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS)
by integrating clinical data and quantitative image features with machine learning (ML) …

Prediction of revascularization after myocardial perfusion SPECT by machine learning in a large population

…, A Shalev, SW Hayes, M Fish, R Nakanishi… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective We aimed to investigate if early revascularization in patients with suspected coronary
artery disease can be effectively predicted by integrating clinical data and quantitative …

Increase in epicardial fat volume is associated with greater coronary artery calcification progression in subjects at intermediate risk by coronary calcium score: a serial …

R Nakanishi, R Rajani, VY Cheng, H Gransar… - Atherosclerosis, 2011 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Rine Nakanishi a , Ronak … Nakanishi is supported in part
by research fellowship awards … (Dr Rine Nakanishi). The EISNER study was also partially …

Machine learning adds to clinical and CAC assessments in predicting 10-year CHD and CVD deaths

R Nakanishi, PJ Slomka, R Rios, J Betancur… - Cardiovascular …, 2021 - jacc.org
Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate whether machine learning (ML) of
noncontrast computed tomographic (CT) and clinical variables improves the prediction of …

Plaque progression assessed by a novel semi-automated quantitative plaque software on coronary computed tomography angiography between diabetes and non …

R Nakanishi, I Ceponiene, K Osawa, Y Luo… - Atherosclerosis, 2016 - Elsevier
Background and aims We aimed at investigating whether diabetes is associated with
progression in coronary plaque components. Methods We identified 142 study subjects …

Relation of diagonal ear lobe crease to the presence, extent, and severity of coronary artery disease determined by coronary computed tomography angiography

…, R Nakazato, TW Smith, Y Otaki, R Nakanishi… - The American journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Controversy exists concerning the relation between diagonal ear lobe crease (DELC) and
coronary artery disease (CAD). We examined whether DELC is associated with CAD using …