Assessing ischemic heart disease in patients with left bundle branch block--an emerging role for multislice computed tomography.
Diagnosis of left bundle branch block (LBBB) with concomitant coronary artery disease (CAD) alters the prognosis and the therapeutic management. All common non-invasive stress tests have a limited performance to identify CAD in patients with LBBB. Thus invasive coronary angiography is often needed to confirm or defer obstructive CAD. We propose a new diagnostic algorithm in evaluation of symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with LBBB.
der Maur
Christoph Auf
CA
Cuculi
Florim
F
Zuber
Michel
M
Kurtz
Claudia
C
Hoffmann
Alexander
A
Allgayer
Bernhard
B
Erne
Paul
P
D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed / Q000639:trends*