Cardiovascular computed tomographic angiography evaluation following unsuccessful invasive angiography: the clinical utility of 3D volume rendering.
In an appropriate clinical setting, cardiac CT angiography (CCT) can be used as a safe and effective noninvasive imaging modality for defining coronary arterial anatomy by providing detailed three-dimensional anatomic information that may be difficult to obtain with invasive coronary angiography (ICA). We present a patient where coronary angiography by ICA was unsuccessful and where the subsequent CCT proved to be very useful in providing us relevant information.
Medicine Department, Cardiology Section, VA Loma Linda Healthcare System, Loma Linda, California 92357, USA.
Ambarish
A
Gopal
Helme
H
Silvet
Gary P
GP
Foster
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