Additional value of transluminal attenuation gradient in CT angiography to predict hemodynamic significance of coronary artery stenosis

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 374-386

  Stuijfzand, Wynand J ^a   Danad, Ibrahim ^a   Raijmakers, Pieter G ^a   Marcu, C Bogdan ^a   Heymans, Martijn W ^a   Van Kuijk, Cornelis C ^a   Van Rossum, Albert C ^a   Nieman, Koen ^b   Min, James K ^c   Leipsic, Jonathon ^d   Van Royen, Niels ^a   Knaapen, Paul ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; coronary computed tomography angiography; fractional flow reserve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTRACORONARY PRESSURE GUIDE WIRE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL ATTENUATION GRADIENT; AGED; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEMODYNAMICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84898827905     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.12.013     Document Type: Article

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