Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography Is Feasible and Reliable for Proximal Coronary Segment Interpretation in Patients with Elevated Body Mass Index
Anthony Salib, Michael Hay, Rahul Muthalaly, Timothy Abrahams, Nushrat Sultana, Raj Kanna, Ravi Rao, Akira Abe, John Bastwrous, Emma Aldous, Huong Tu, Sarang Paleri, Sheran Vasanthakumar, Alisha Patel, Rhea Nandurkar, Adam Brown, Andrew Lin, Nitesh Nerlekar, Ioannis Paraskevaidis · 2024
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Description
Anthony Salib and co-authors checked whether CT scans of the heart arteries stay readable in patients with high body weight. Doctors often avoid this scan, called CTCA, in obese patients for fear the images will be too poor to judge. The team reviewed scans from 703 consecutive patients sent for suspected artery disease, grouping them by body mass index and grading image quality.
Nearly 94 percent of studies were fully readable. Among the few poor studies, nine in ten of the wide, near-heart artery segments could still be judged, and only seven patients had unreadable main segments. The authors conclude the scan remains a sound test for the segments that matter most to prognosis, whatever a patient's weight.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anthony Salib, Michael Hay, Rahul Muthalaly, Timothy Abrahams, Nushrat Sultana, Raj Kanna, Ravi Rao, Akira Abe, John Bastwrous, Emma Aldous, Huong Tu, Sarang Paleri, Sheran Vasanthakumar, Alisha Patel, Rhea Nandurkar, Adam Brown, Andrew Lin, Nitesh Nerlekar, Ioannis Paraskevaidis |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |