TY  - CHAP
AU  - Bong Gun Song
AU  - Hyun Suk Yang
AU  - Joon Hyung Doh
AU  - Hong Jang
AU  - Gu Hyun Kang
AU  - Yong Hwan Park
AU  - Woo Jung Chun
AU  - Ju Hyeon Oh
AU  - Sung Min Ko
AU  - Hweung Kon Hwang
ED  - Branislav Baskot
Y1  - 2011-09-15
PY  - 2011
T1  - Assessment of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Patency and Graft Disease Using Multidetector Computed Tomography (MDCT)
N2  - In the intervening 10 years tremendous advances in the field of cardiac computed tomography have occurred. We now can legitimately claim that computed tomography angiography (CTA) of the coronary arteries is available. In the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), many guidelines today consider CTA an alternative to stress testing. The use of CTA in primary prevention patients is more controversial in considering diagnostic test interpretation in populations with a low prevalence to disease. However the nuclear technique most frequently used by cardiologists is myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). The combination of a nuclear camera with CTA allows for the attainment of coronary anatomic, cardiac function and MPI from one piece of equipment. PET/SPECT cameras can now assess perfusion, function, and metabolism. Assessing cardiac viability is now fairly routine with these enhancements to cardiac imaging. This issue is full of important information that every cardiologist needs to now.
BT  - Coronary Angiography
SP  - Ch. 9
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/18913
DO  - 10.5772/18913
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-26
ER  -