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Does nongated contrast-enhanced multidetector CT reliably identify left ventricular enlargement?
Does nongated contrast-enhanced multidetector CT reliably identify left ventricular enlargement?
Nongated contrast-enhanced multidetector CT can be used to recognize left ventricular enlargement using a maximum luminal diameter threshold of >5.6 cm.
May enable incidental LV enlargement detection on routine CT; hypothesis-generating pending prospective validation.
Left ventricular enlargement can be reliably identified on nongated contrast-enhanced multidetector CT when the maximum luminal diameter of the LV is greater than 5.6 cm. Nongated contrast-enhanced CT scan can be used to recognize LVE.
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Kathiria et al. (2015) studied this question.