A sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SVA) is a rare aortic disease that may be congenital or acquired. Patients with an intact SVA are usually asymptomatic, whereas a ruptured SVA may cause acute chest pain and dyspnea.
Lianyue Ma +8 more
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CT Coronary Angiography with 100kV tube voltage and a low noise reconstruction filter in non-obese patients: evaluation of radiation dose and diagnostic quality of 2D and 3D image reconstructions using open source software (OsiriX) [PDF]
INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE. Computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) has seen a dramatic evolution in the last decade owing to the availability of multislice CT scanners with 64 detector rows and beyond.
FAGGIONI, LORENZO
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Inter-observer agreement of the Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS^{TM}) in patients with stable chest pain [PDF]
Purpose: To assess inter-observer variability of the Coronary Artery Disease - Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) for classifying the degree of coronary artery stenosis in patients with stable chest pain.
Abdel Razek, Ahmed Abdel Khalek +3 more
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A multinomial quadrivariate D-vine copula mixed model for meta-analysis of diagnostic studies in the presence of non-evaluable subjects [PDF]
Diagnostic test accuracy studies observe the result of a gold standard procedure that defines the presence or absence of a disease and the result of a diagnostic test.
Aristidis K Nikoloulopoulos +4 more
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Background The impact of sex‐related differences in coronary atheroma and flow impairment severity on clinical events and costs remains unclear. Methods and Results This is a secondary analysis of patients with stable coronary artery disease who ...
Lavinia Gabara +8 more
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Evaluation of Motion Artifact Metrics for Coronary CT Angiography [PDF]
Purpose This study quantified the performance of coronary artery motion artifact metrics relative to human observer ratings. Motion artifact metrics have been used as part of motion correction and best‐phase selection algorithms for Coronary Computed ...
Contijoch +19 more
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Evaluation of coronary stents using mult
Background: Recurrent ischemic symptoms after coronary stenting require imaging assessment to rule-out in-stent restenosis or occlusion. Aim: To evaluate role of multi-detector computed tomography in assessment of coronary artery stents.
Mahmoud A. Dawoud +3 more
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Comorbidities Associated with Large Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Abdominal aortic aneurysm has become increasingly important owing to demographic changes. Some other diseases, for example, cholecystolithiasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and hernias, seem to co-occur with abdominal aortic ...
Althoff, Christian E. +6 more
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Background: In the era of High-sensitive troponin (hs-Tn), up to 50% of patients with a mild increase of hs-Tn will finally have a normal invasive coronary angiogram.
David Meier +8 more
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Determination of predictors of successful recanalization of the chronic occlusions of coronary arteries by means of CT-coronarography method [PDF]
The review illuminated actual issues of the diagnostic efficiency of computed tomography (CT) of the coronary arteries in the planning of the procedure percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with chronic occlusion of coronary arteries (CTO).
T N Veselova +2 more
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