Aortic Diseases
Key Points ▪ CT scanning is the dominant imaging test for the assessment of acute aortic diseases. ▪ Without ECG-gating, motion artifacts are still a problem for assessment of the…
Pulmonary Embolism and Other Pulmonary Artery Lesions
Key Points ▪ CT scanning is currently the de facto test of choice to identify pulmonary embolism. ▪ CT scanning should be used within a clinically based cost-conscious algorithm to…
Noncoronary/Noncardiac Lesions
Key Points ▪ Cardiac CT scans may encounter a wide spectrum of noncoronary/noncardiac lesions, in both the chest and upper abdomen, of widely ranging clinical relevance. ▪ The incidence of…
Caval Anatomy: Variants and Lesions
Key Points ▪ Contrast-enhanced CT scanning is well suited to imaging congenital anatomic variants of the cavae as well as caval pathologies, including caval thrombi, tumors, obstructions, and occlusions. ▪…
Simple Congenital Heart Disease
Key Points ▪ Although echocardiography plus MRI is still the best overall modality for the evaluation of complex congenital heart lesions, especially postoperatively, there are exceptions. ▪ As children and…
Assessment of Peripheral Vascular Diseases
Key Points ▪ Contrast-enhanced CT scanning has developed to afford excellent noninvasive angiography, and also affords imaging of organs and other structures, unlike conventional angiography. ▪ Atherosclerotic calcium can be…
Electrophysiologic Applications of Cardiac CT
Key Points ▪ Cardiac CT is an excellent means of depicting pulmonary venous anatomy to plan pulmonary venous isolation procedures and of anticipating several potential complications of pulmonary venous isolation…
Myopathies
Key Points ▪ Cardiac CT’s ability to depict fine structural detail within the heart enables it to characterize the morphologic features of cardiomyopathies such as wall thickness, left ventricular mass,…
Assessment of Complex and Repaired Congenital Heart Disease
Key Points ▪ Although echocardiography and MRI are still the best overall modalities for the evaluation of aortic and complex congenital heart lesions, especially postoperatively, there are exceptions. ▪ A…
Cardiac and Paracardiac Masses
Key Points ▪ The initial evaluation of cardiac masses should be performed using echocardiography. ▪ Cardiac CT scanning is able to image cardiac masses and can contribute to their evaluation….
