title: Multislice computed tomography for preoperative and postoperative assessment in totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting.
abstract: This article reviews the clinical value of noninvasive multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) angiography before and after totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery. The use of coronary and aorto-iliaco-femoral MSCT angiography in the preoperative assessment is addressed and the use of bypass MSCT angiography for postoperative control of bypass graft patency is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Department of Radiology II, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria. Gudrun.Feuchtner@i-med.ac.at
authors.forename: Gudrun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Feuchtner
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schachner
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Junker
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bonaros
authors.forename: Armin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohlinger
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Friedrich
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Guenther
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Laufer
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bonatti
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004724:Endoscopy; D006801:Humans; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed