Cardiovascular computed tomography in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease: Beyond lumen assessment

Z Sun, J Silberstein, M Vaccarezza - Journal of Cardiovascular …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cardiovascular CT is being widely used in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease due to
the rapid technological advancements in CT scanning techniques. These advancements …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of Noninvasive Diagnostic Techniques in Identifying Coronary Artery Disease: A Systematic Review

SM Alajmi, FH Aljabbari, HA Alabdullah… - Heart …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) poses a significant global health burden,
necessitating optimal diagnostic strategies for risk assessment and management. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring Clinical Trajectories and the Continuum of Care for Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome in the United Kingdom: A Thorough Cross-Sectional …

HA Zaki, I Bashir, A Mahdy, M Abdurabu, H Khallafalla… - Cureus, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The United Kingdom (UK) has a sustainable healthcare system. Nonetheless, the
burden of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is still a significant challenge. A scarcity of …

Noninvasive machine-learning models for the detection of lesion-specific ischemia in patients with stable angina with intermediate stenosis severity on coronary CT …

H Hamasaki, H Arimura, Y Yamasaki… - … Engineering Sciences in …, 2024 - Springer
This study proposed noninvasive machine-learning models for the detection of lesion-
specific ischemia (LSI) in patients with stable angina with intermediate stenosis severity …

[HTML][HTML] The Effect of Severe Coronary Calcification on Diagnostic Performance of Computed Tomography-Derived Fractional Flow Reserve Analyses in People with …

I Žuža, T Nadarević, T Jakljević, N Bartolović, S Kovačić - Diagnostics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: Negative CCTA can effectively exclude significant CAD, eliminating the need
for further noninvasive or invasive testing. However, in the presence of severe CAD, the …

White blood cell counts can predict 4-year cardiovascular disease risk in patients with stable coronary heart disease: a prospective cohort study

W Jiang, G Huang, J Du, H Yang, S Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background The prevalence of cardiovascular disease has increased sharply in the Asian
population, and evaluation of the risk of cardiovascular events with stable coronary heart …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship between CTA performances and cardiac function indicators in myocardial bridge and mural coronary artery

F Guo, J Yan, X Xue - American Journal of Translational Research, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: To investigate the relationship between computed tomography angiography
(CTA) performances and cardiac function indicators in patients with myocardial bridge and …

[PDF][PDF] Diffusion Model for Generating Synthetic Contrast Enhanced CT from Non-Enhanced Heart Axial CT Images

VRS Ferreira, AC de Paiva, AC Silva, JDS de Almeida… - scitepress.org
This work proposes the use of a deep learning-based adversarial diffusion model to address
the translation of contrast-enhanced from non-contrast-enhanced computed tomography …

[HTML][HTML] Coronary CT Angiogram–should we be ordering more?

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Identification of individuals at high risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular events is actually
quite challenging in practice. There are many predictive algorithms which try to assess the …

[HTML][HTML] CT vs Invasive Coronary Angiography in Patients With Diabetes and Suspected Coronary Artery Disease

JA Seiglie - practiceupdate.com
The DISCHARGE trial, which was conducted in 16 European countries, compared cardiac
CT with invasive coronary angiography (ICA) and found that the rate of MACE was similar for …