Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography
Diagnostic performance of non-invasive fractional flow reserve derived from coronary computed tomography angiography: current perspectives
... Abstract: Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) has been increasingly used to detect coronary artery ...of coronary CTA is well established with a high sensitivity and ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of coronary opacification derived from coronary computed tomography angiography to detect ischemia: first validation versus single-photon emission computed tomography
... a coronary stenosis by fractional flow reserve (FFR) from coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) has recently provided encouraging ...emission computed tomography ...
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Coronary artery fistulas morphology in coronary computed tomography angiography
... For coronary CTA, each patient was given an injection of 70-140 ml of iodine contrast agent (Ultravist 370, 370 mg I/mL, Bayer Schering Pharma; or Iomeron 400, 400 mg I/mL, Bracco) depending on weight, at a flow ...
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An investigation of correlation between left coronary bifurcation angle and hemodynamic changes in coronary stenosis by coronary computed tomography angiography-derived computational fluid dynamics
... significant coronary stenosis or high-risk plaques ...left coronary angulation has been performed to confirm the association between wide angulation and degree of coronary stenosis with use of ...
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Clinical Implications of Moderate Coronary Stenosis on Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in Patients with Stable Angina
... Our study had several limitations. First, we validated CCTA- identified moderate stenosis in comparison with the degree of anatomical stenosis assessed by ICA. Because the functional significance of coronary ...
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Coronary plaque characteristics and epicardial fat tissue in long term survivors of type 1 diabetes identified by coronary computed tomography angiography
... has shown to affect plaque development, observed as cell-death within the lipid cores in addition to the induc- tion of micro-calcifications [27, 28]. These effects are described as plaque-stabilizing, and an inverse ...
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Temporal Trends in Radiation Dose Associated with Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography
... Cardiovascular Computed Tomography; American College of Radiology; American Heart Association; American Society of Echocardiography; American Society of Nuclear Cardiology; North American Society for ...
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Hemodynamic analysis of sequential graft from right coronary system to left coronary system
... CHD: coronary heart disease; CCTA: coronary computed tomography angiography; RCA: right coronary artery; LAD: left anterior descending; LCX: left circumflex artery; 0D/3D: ...
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Risk factors and utility of maximum carotid intima–media thickness as a surrogate marker for coronary artery stenosis
... underwent coronary computed tomog- raphy angiography between April 2006 and March 2012 were ...between coronary artery stenosis (75%) as determined by coronary computed ...
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Myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries: a case report and review of the literature
... pres- Coronary computed tomography angiography shows absence of flow limiting stenosis in both left (1a) and right (1b) coronary ...
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Various Scoring Systems for Predicting Revascularization of Chronic Coronary Total Occlusion by Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
... “percutaneous coronary intervention”, “scoring systems”, ...(Computed tomography registry of chronic total occlusion revas- cularization) score was developed by Opolski et ...of coronary ...
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Comparison of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and computed tomography (CT) angiography based on conventional coronary angiography
... the coronary arteries. However, it is now known that coronary micro- circulation abnormalities can contribute to arising of the ischemia even without a visible disease in big epicardial ...epicardial ...
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Imaging the Atherosclerosis with 64 Detector Row Computed Tomography in Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia
... of coronary artery disease ...that computed tomography angiography will be clinically useful to rule out coronary stenoses in patient suspected coronary artery disease ...
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Cardiac Computed Tomography for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis
... percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass grafting have ...acute coronary syndrome in the stage of no sig- nificant stenotic coronary artery ...cardiac computed ...
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ECR 2013 Book of Abstracts - E - Authors' Index
... multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) in the management of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) symptoms, candidate to sleeve surgical revision (SS 201a), B-0193 Rengo ...CT ...
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Coronary calcium scoring: are the results comparable to computed tomography coronary angiography for screening coronary artery disease in a South Asian population?
... CTCA is a non-invasive radiological procedure that al- lows obtaining quick images with a higher temporal and spatial resolution. It allows direct visualization and evaluation of the coronary artery anatomy, ...
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Noninvasive FFR derived from coronary CT angiography in the management of coronary artery disease: technology and clinical update
... of coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) to evaluate the anatomic severity of coronary artery disease, new methods of deriving functional information from CCTA have been ...sets. ...
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In vitro assessment of coronary artery stents in 256 multislice computed tomography angiography
... At first glance, the ALN values for group A and B stents seemed to be astonishingly low with most values being <50% using the XCD kernel. However, the visibil- ity of their lumina was impaired by a phenomenon we ...
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Computed tomography coronary angiography in patients without known coronary artery disease can demonstrate possible non-cardiovascular causes of non-acute retrosternal chest pain
... of computed tomography (CT) in the evaluation of coronary artery disease (CAD) has spread [5 ...CT coronary angiog- raphy (CTCA) should be considered the method for ruling out coronary ...
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Left ventricular wall findings in non electrocardiography gated contrast enhanced computed tomography after extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation
... 3]. Computed tomography (CT) is often performed after ECPR for the determination of etiology and evaluation of ...the coronary artery and diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in patients with ...
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