Prevalence of an Increased Ascending Thoracic Aorta Diameter Diagnosed by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography Versus 64-Multislice Cardiac Computed Tomography

Bicuspid Aortic Valve

“…(3) Multiple imaging modalities are capable of measuring the aorta, 69 but the reproducibility between modalities is controversial. Some authors report an excellent correlation between aortic measurements by transthoracic echocardiography and computed tomography, 80 whereas others report decreased sensitivity for dilatation detection by echocardiography, 81 and others show systematic underestimation of diameters by echocardiography in comparison with computed tomography. 82 (4) Functional imaging of the aorta is in its infancy, and molecular imaging of the aorta that reflects underlying pathology is not available.…”

Is Obstructive Sleep Apnea Associated With Greater Thoracic Aortic Size?

“…Another difference with the study of Serizawa et al (1) is the method of measurement of thoracic aortic size: TTE in our study while computed tomography was used in their group of patients (1). However, the agreement for ascending aortic diameter measured by echocardiography and computed tomography has been evaluated to be as high as 95% (5).…”

Physiopathologie des anévrismes idiopathiques de l’aorte thoracique ascendante

“…), rencontrées chez le sujet plus jeune, et les formes dégénératives du sujet plus âgé. Ces formes dégénératives sont les plus fréquentes [1,7], ne peuvent pas être rattachés à une cause précise et doivent être considérés comme idiopathiques. Le sujet de cette revue est constitué par les formes idiopathiques d'AATA.…”