Publications by authors named "Liliana Balardi"
Article Synopsis
- * Advances in imaging technologies have improved the diagnosis of CAP, aiding in assessing patient risk.
- * There is still no agreement on treatment approaches for CAP, making patient management difficult; the paper reviews CAP's implications and the role of multimodal imaging in addressing it.
A cardiac lesion detected at ultrasonography might turn out to be a normal structure, a benign tumor or rarely a malignancy, and lesion characterization is very important to appropriately manage the lesion itself. The exact relationship of the mass with coronary arteries and the knowledge of possible concomitant coronary artery disease are necessary preoperative information. Moreover, the increasingly performed coronary CT angiography to evaluate non-invasively coronary artery disease leads to a rising number of incidental findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the feasibility of an ultra-low radiation dose and contrast volume protocol using third-generation dual-source (DS) CT for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) planning with coronary artery disease (CAD) assessment, coronary artery calcium score (CACS) and aortic valve calcium score (AVCS) quantification and to evaluate their relationship with TAVI outcome.
Methods: In this retrospective study were selected 203 patients (131 males, 79.4 ± 5.