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Cardiac complications are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in recipients of liver transplant (LT). Previous guidelines recommended stress testing to exclude coronary artery disease (CAD), although recent guidelines recommend coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA). We aimed to assess the prevalence and predictors of CAD on CCTA and compare CCTA with stress testing in consecutive adult candidates for LT who underwent CAD noninvasive assessment between 2020 and 2023.

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Prognostic impact of identifying etiology of prosthetic valve dysfunction with CT.

J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr

March 2022

Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Electronic address:

Background: In patients with prosthetic heart valves (PHV), there are distinct treatment implications based on prosthetic valve dysfunction (PVD) etiology. We investigated whether evaluation for PVD etiology on computed tomography (CT) has prognostic value for adverse clinical outcomes.

Methods: Consecutive patients with suspected PVD that had a clinically indicated contrast chest CT and echocardiogram done within 1 year of each other were identified retrospectively from the Prosthetic Heart Valve CT Registry at the University of Minnesota.

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There is an urgent need to develop new protocols to reduce radiation dose of coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA). The aim of this pilot study was to demonstrate the feasibility of an ultra-low dose CTA scanning.

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