Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy after Heart Transplantation: Electrocardiographically Gated Cardiac CT Angiography for Assessment

Autor: Andrew G. Mitchell, Tarun Mittal, Mathen G. Panicker, Nicholas R. Banner
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Radiology. 268:374-381
ISSN: 1527-1315
0033-8419
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13121440
Popis: Cardiac CT angiography with a 64-section CT scanner for diagnosis of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in heart transplant recipients has a high sensitivity and specificity and excellent negative predictive value in comparison with invasive angiography, even without the use of heart rate–lowering agents.
Databáze: OpenAIRE