64-multislice computed tomography in consecutive patients with suspected or proven coronary artery disease: Initial single center experience

Non-invasive evaluation of coronary artery stent patency with retrospectively ECG-gated 64-slice CT angiography

“…This technique is already established for the detection of coronary artery stenosis [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] and has recently been evaluated for the assessment of coronary artery stent patency [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. Factors favoring the use of multi-slice CTA for the assessment of stent patency are the speed, robustness and cost-effectiveness of the technique and the increasingly widespread availability of multi-slice CT scanners.…”

“…However, despite several reports describing the potential utility of multi-slice CTA for the assessment of coronary artery stent patency [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37], comparatively few studies have evaluated the diagnostic performance of 64-slice CTA compared to SCA for the detection of ISR and SO [28,30,33,34,36]. The present study was therefore performed to determine the diagnostic performance of 64-slice CTA for the assessment of coronary artery stent patency, relative to SCA as reference standard.…”

Implications for single phase prospective CT coronary angiography for the diagnosis of significant coronary stenoses in clinical practice

“…Non-invasive coronary angiography with multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) has shown promising results for the detection and quantification of coronary artery disease [1,2]. 64-slice CT angiography (CTA) demonstrates a high positive predictive value for diagnosis of significant coronary artery stenoses in acute coronary syndrome [3].…”

HDL-associated factors provide additional prognostic information for coronary artery disease as determined by multi-detector row computed tomography

“…Multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) has become more widely available in many general hospitals, and enables the accurate non-invasive assessment of coronary artery stenosis [11,12], plaque imaging [13,14] and calcium scoring [15,16]. Although it is very difficult to detect coronary stenosis as assessed by MDCT in a lesion with advanced calcification, the coronary artery calcification (CAC) score has recently been developed as a marker of coronary atherosclerosis [17].…”