Computed tomography for detecting left atrial thrombus: A meta-analysis

Archives of Medical Science

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 943-951

  Wu, Xiaosan ^a   Wang, Congxia ^a   Zhang, Chunyan ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Ding, Faming ^a   Yan, Jiaojuan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Left atrial thrombus; Meta analysis; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 84873101096     PISSN: 17341922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2012.32400     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Bonita R. Epidemiology of stroke. Lancet 1992;339:342-4.
2. Pearson AC, Labovitz AJ, Tatineni S, et al. Superiority of transesophageal echocardiography in detecting cardiac source of embolism in patients with cerebral ischemia of uncertain etiology. J Am Coll Cardiol 1991;17:66-72.
3. Kapral MK, Silver FL. Preventive health care, 1999 update: 2. Echocardiography for the detection of a cardiac source of embolus in patients with stroke. Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. CMAJ 1999;161:989-96.
4. Han SW, Nam HS, Kim SH, et al. Frequency and significance of cardiac sources of embolism in the TOAST classification. Cerebrovasc Dis 2007;24:463-8. (Pubitemid 350014973)
5. Bernhardt P, Schmidt H, Hammerstingl C, et al. Patients with atrial fibrillation and dense spontaneous echo contrast at high risk a prospective and serial follow-up over 12 months with transesophageal echocardiography and cerebral magnetic resonance imaging. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005;45:1807-12. (Pubitemid 40789939)
6. Asinger RW, Koehler J, Pearce LA, et al. Pathophysiologic correlates of thromboembolism in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: II. Dense spontaneous echocardiographic contrast (The Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation [SPAF-III] study). J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1999;12:1088-96.
7. Ellenbogen KA, Halperin JL, Le Heuzey JY, et al.; American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines; European Society of Cardio - logy Committee for Practice Guidelines; European Heart Rhythm Association; Heart Rhythm Society. ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2001 Guidelines for the Mana gement of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation): developed in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society. Circulation 2006;114:e257-354.
8. Fuster V, Rydén LE, Cannom DS, et al. HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert Consensus Statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: recommendations for personnel, policy, procedures and follow-up. A report of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Task Force on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation. Heart Rhythm 2007;4:816-61.
9. Omran H, Jung W, Rabahieh R, et al. Imaging of thrombi and assessment of left atrial appendage function: a prospective study comparing transthoracic and trans - oesophageal echocardiography. Heart 1999;81:192-8. (Pubitemid 29119397)
10. Cujec B, Polasek P, Voll C, et al. Transesophageal echo - cardiography in the detection of potential cardiac source of embolism in stroke patients. Stroke 1991;22:727-33.
11. Moher D, Cook DJ, Eastwood S, et al. Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement. Quality of Reporting of Metaanalyses. Lancet 1999;354:1896-900.
12. Whiting P, Rutjes AW, Reitsma JB, et al. The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews. BMC Med Res Methodol 2003;3:25.
13. Whiting PF, Weswood ME, Rutjes AW, et al. Evaluation of QUADAS, a tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies. BMC Med Res Methodol 2006;6:9.
14. Devillé WL, Buntinx F, Bouter LM, et al. Conducting systematic reviews of diagnostic studies: didactic guide - lines. BMC Med Res Methodol 2002;2:9.
15. Deeks JJ. Systematic reviews in health care: Systematic reviews of evaluations of diagnostic and screening tests. BMJ 2001;323:157-62. (Pubitemid 32678396)
16. Higgins JP, Thompson SG, Deeks JJ, et al. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses. BMJ 2003;327:557-60. (Pubitemid 37088507)
17. Egger M, Davey Smith G, Schneider M, et al. Bias in metaanalysis detected by a simple, graphical test. BMJ 1997;315:629-34. (Pubitemid 27387172)
18. Dorenkamp M, Sohns C, Vollmann D, et al. Detection of left atrial thrombus during routine diagnostic work-up prior to pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation: role of transesophageal echocardiography and multidetector computed tomography. Int J Cardiol 2011 Jul. 15 [Epub ahead of print].
19. Kapa S, Martinez MW, Williamson EE, et al. ECG-gated dual-source CT for detection of left atrial appendage thrombus in patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 2010;29:75-81.
20. Hur J, Kim YJ, Lee HJ, et al. Cardioembolic stroke: dualenergy cardiac CT for differentiation of left atrial ap - pendage thrombus and circulatory stasis. Radiology 2012;263:688-95.
21. Kim YY, Klein AL, Halliburton SS, et al. Left atrial appendage filling defects identified by multidetector computed tomography in patients undergoing radiofrequency pulmonary vein antral isolation: a comparison with transesophageal echocardiography. Am Heart J 2007;154:1199-205. (Pubitemid 350161775)
22. Martinez MW, Kirsch J, Williamson EE, et al. Utility of nongated multidetector computed tomography for detection of left atrial thrombus in patients undergoing catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2009;2:69-76.
23. Singh NK, Nallamothu N, Zuck VP, et al. Left atrial appendage filling defects on 64-slice multidetector computed tomography in patients undergoing pulmonary vein isolation: predictors and comparison to transesophageal echocardiography. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2009;33:946-51.
24. Tang RB, Dong JZ, Zhang ZQ, et al. Comparison of contrast enhanced 64-slice computed tomography and transesophageal echocardiography in detection of left atrial thrombus in patients with atrial fibrillation. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 2008;22:199-203.
25. Sawit ST, Garcia-Alvarez A, Suri B, et al. Usefulness of cardiac computed tomographic delayed contrast enhancement of the left atrial appendage before pulmonary vein ablation. Am J Cardiol 2012;109:677-84.
26. Hur J, Kim YJ, Lee HJ, et al. Dual-enhanced cardiac CT for detection of left atrial appendage thrombus in patients with stroke: a prospective comparison study with trans - esophageal echocardiography. Stroke 2011;42:2471-7.
27. Goto S, Bhatt DL, Röther J, et al. Prevalence, clinical profile, and cardiovascular outcomes of atrial fibrillation patients with atherothrombosis. Am Heart J 2008;156:855-63.
28. Wolber T, Maeder M, Atefy R, et al. Should routine echocardiography be performed in all patients with stroke? J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2007;16:1-7. (Pubitemid 46073783)
29. Easterbrook PJ, Berlin JA, Gopalan R, et al. Publication bias in clinical research. Lancet 1991;337:867-72.
30. Shen X, Aronow WS, Nair CK, et al. Thoracic aortic athero - ma severity predicts high-risk coronary anatomy in patients undergoing transesophageal echocardiography. Arch Med Sci 2011;7:61-6.
31. Kepka C, Pregowski J, Michalowska I. Cardiac computed tomography. Clinical usefulness of calcium scoring and coronary computed tomography angiography. Postep Kardiol Inter 2010;4:178-86.
32. Einstein AJ, Henzlova MJ, Rajagopalan S. Estimating risk of cancer associated with radiation exposure from 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography. JAMA 2007;298:317-23. (Pubitemid 47080486)