1. Clinical applications of cardiac computed tomography: a consensus paper of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging—part II.
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Pontone, Gianluca, Rossi, Alexia, Guglielmo, Marco, Dweck, Marc R, Gaemperli, Oliver, Nieman, Koen, Pugliese, Francesca, Maurovich-Horvat, Pal, Gimelli, Alessia, Cosyns, Bernard, and Achenbach, Stephan
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CONSENSUS (Social sciences) ,CARDIOMYOPATHIES ,CARDIOVASCULAR diseases ,ACUTE coronary syndrome ,CONGENITAL heart disease ,RADIONUCLIDE imaging ,DIAGNOSTIC imaging ,CORONARY artery disease ,CALCINOSIS ,COMPUTED tomography ,PERFUSION ,HEART diseases - Abstract
Cardiac computed tomography (CT) was initially developed as a non-invasive diagnostic tool to detect and quantify coronary stenosis. Thanks to the rapid technological development, cardiac CT has become a comprehensive imaging modality which offers anatomical and functional information to guide patient management. This is the second of two complementary documents endorsed by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging aiming to give updated indications on the appropriate use of cardiac CT in different clinical scenarios. In this article, emerging CT technologies and biomarkers, such as CT-derived fractional flow reserve, perfusion imaging, and pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation, are described. In addition, the role of cardiac CT in the evaluation of atherosclerotic plaque, cardiomyopathies, structural heart disease, and congenital heart disease is revised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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