Publications by authors named "Mansour Al Moudi"
CT angiography in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease: a transformation in cardiovascular CT practice.
Quant Imaging Med Surg
October 2014
Computed tomography (CT) angiography represents the most important technical development in CT imaging and it has challenged invasive angiography in the diagnostic evaluation of cardiovascular abnormalities. Over the last decades, technological evolution in CT imaging has enabled CT angiography to become a first-line imaging modality in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. This review provides an overview of the diagnostic applications of CT angiography (CTA) in cardiovascular disease, with a focus on selected clinical challenges in some common cardiovascular abnormalities, which include abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism (PE) and coronary artery disease.
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- The study investigates the effectiveness of 18F-FDG PET for assessing heart muscle viability in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), comparing it to SPECT and echocardiography, with invasive coronary angiography as the reference.
- Thirty patients with CAD participated, undergoing multiple imaging tests to evaluate diagnostic sensitivity and agreement between the different imaging methods.
- Results showed that 18F-FDG PET had the highest sensitivity (100%) for detecting myocardial viability, suggesting it is a valuable diagnostic tool warranting further large-scale research.