ArticleJournal of cardiothoracic surgery2019
Value of cardiac computed tomography angiography in pre-operative assessment of infective endocarditis.
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- Comprehensive CT study to assess local and systemic involvement in patients with infective endocarditis: experience from a multidisciplinary team of a tertiary referral center.La Radiologia medica · 2025Article
- Contemporary Role of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in Endocarditis: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Imaging in Infective Endocarditis-Current Opinions and Trends in Cardiac Computed Tomography.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Cardiac computed tomography in infective endocarditis: "bridging the detection gap".Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
- Early Biological Valve Failure: Structural Valve Degeneration, Thrombosis, or Endocarditis?Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Should We Quantify Valvular Calcifications on Cardiac CT in Patients with Infective Endocarditis?Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Imaging Spectrum of Valvular and Paravalvular Complications of Prosthetic Heart Valve at CT Angiography.Radiology. Cardiothoracic imaging · 2021Article
- Comparing the diagnostic accuracy of computed tomography vs transoesophageal echocardiography for infective endocarditis - A meta-analysis.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesReview
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Abstract
backgroundSubstantial development of cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) technology in the last decade has commanded to increase usage of this modality for assessing infective endocarditis (IE). The objective of this study is to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of preoperative cardiac CTA imaging as opposed to transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in the assessment of complications associated to IE, with comparison to surgical findings.
methodsAmong 52 patients with surgically proven IE in our database, 24 underwent contrast-enhanced ECG cardiac CTA and were included in the study and all of them also underwent TTE.
resultsFor the detection of pseudoaneurysm/abscess in both native and prosthetic valves, cardiac CTA demonstrated significantly higher sensitivity (91.5% vs. 15.8%, p < 0.0001) with similar specificity (81.25). Cardiac CTA demonstrated similar sensitivity and specificity in identifying vegetation and valvular dehiscence in all patients.
conclusionsPreoperative cardiac CTA can be seen as complementary to TTE in assessing complications such as pseudoaneurysm or abscess of the patients with IE.
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