A pictorial review of coronary artery bypass grafts at multidetector row CT(635 views) Marano R, Storto ML, Merlino B, Maddestra N, Di Giammarco G, Bonomo L
Department of Clinical Sciences and Bioimaging, Institute of Radiology, University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti, Italy
Department of Bioimaging and Radiological Science, Institute of Radiology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti, Italy
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A pictorial review of coronary artery bypass grafts at multidetector row CT
Multidetector row CT scanners with submillimeter spatial resolution and high temporal resolution are now available and are increasingly used for noninvasive assessment of vascular disease including coronary arteries and grafts. The entire heart and graft course can be scanned within a single breath-hold, and contrast-enhanced images are reconstructed through retrospective ECG gating. In this pictorial review, we describe the CT findings of the most commonly used coronary artery bypass grafts on both axial images and two-dimensional and three-dimensional images providing a correlation with conventional coronary angiography.
A pictorial review of coronary artery bypass grafts at multidetector row CT