Key result
Cardiac computed tomography serves as a valuable complementary diagnostic tool to transesophageal echocardiography for differentiating periprosthetic masses in prosthetic heart valves.
Cardiac CT serves as a valuable complementary diagnostic tool to TEE for differentiating periprosthetic masses in patients with suspected prosthetic heart valve dysfunction.
Dear Editor, We recently read with great interest the article by Hsu et al. [1] entitled ‘‘Cine-Computed Tomography for the Evaluation of Prosthetic Heart Valve Function”. We appreciate the contribution made by these authors in this report on the beneficial use of cine-computed tomography (CT) in the evaluation of patients with suspected prosthetic aortic valve dysfunction. Furthermore, we would like to contribute to their report by drawing attention to the role of cardiac CT for the differentiation of periprosthetic masses as a complementary diagnostic tool to transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in the evaluation of prosthetic heart valves (PHV).
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Kalçık et al. (2020) conducted a letter in Suspected prosthetic valve dysfunction. Cardiac computed tomography (CT) vs. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) was evaluated. Cardiac computed tomography serves as a valuable complementary diagnostic tool to transesophageal echocardiography for differentiating periprosthetic masses in prosthetic heart valves.
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