ArticleDer Radiologe2011
[Prevalence and clinical significance of incidental cardiac findings in non-ECG-gated chest CT scans].
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- Frequency of myocardial infarcts on conventional, non-gated CT: An often-overlooked entity.Journal of clinical imaging science · 2024Article
- Benign incidental cardiac findings in chest and cardiac CT imaging.The British journal of radiology · 2023Review
- Cardiovascular findings on computed tomography in patients with unclear finding situation and trauma of unknown origin.Medicine · 2017Article
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- [Clinically relevant incidental cardiovascular findings in CT examinations].Der Radiologe · 2017Review
- Pitfalls in radiation oncology. "Myocardial metastasis" in PET-CT after palliative radiation treatment of the left 5th rib.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2012Article
- Caseous mitral annular calcification mimicking a lung tumor on chest X-ray.Journal of family medicine and primary careArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and clinical significance of incidental cardiac findings in non-ECG-gated chest CT. PATIENTS AND
methodsNon-ECG-gated chest CT examinations of 300 patients were retrospectively analyzed for incidental cardiac findings. Subsequently, these findings were evaluated for their clinical relevance by a cardiologist.
resultsA total of 107 out of 300 examined patients had 174 incidental cardiac findings including coronary calcification (90), aortic/mitral valve calcification (42), iatrogenic changes (23), pericardial effusion (6), dilatation of the heart (4), myocardial changes (3), thrombus in the left ventricle (2), constrictive pericarditis (2) and atrial myxoma (1). Of the cardiac findings 51% were described in the written report and in 53 out of the 107 patients the cardiac findings were unknown. Newly detected incidental findings from 8 patients were rated as clinically significant: pericardial effusion (4), constrictive pericarditis (1), thrombus in the left ventricle (1), atrial myxoma (1) and dilatation of the heart (1).
conclusionIncidental cardiac findings are frequent in non-ECG-gated chest CT and may have a high clinical relevance.
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