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Computed tomography provides a rapid, noninvasive method to assess stent integrity, position, and complications such as aortic wall injuries and restenosis after aortic coarctation stenting.
This pictorial essay provides a guide to interpreting computed tomography examinations for assessing stent integrity and complications after stent placement for aortic coarctation.
Offers clinicians a rapid noninvasive stent assessment option after aortic coarctation; leaves open standardized protocols and outcome validation.
Stent placement is commonly used to treat aortic coarctation. Although invasive angiography remains the gold standard, follow-up is often performed using computed tomography, which allows rapid, noninvasive assessment of the aorta and surrounding tissues. The goal of this pictorial essay is to provide a guide to the interpretation of these examinations. Normal and abnormal computed tomographic appearance of different stent types is shown along with reconstructions that can help assess stent integrity and the stent position in relation to the aortic wall and branches. Furthermore, imaging findings of complications including aortic wall injuries, restenosis, and intimal hyperplasia are depicted.
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Boccalini et al. (2017) conducted a review in Aortic coarctation. Computed tomography was evaluated. Computed tomography provides a rapid, noninvasive method to assess stent integrity, position, and complications such as aortic wall injuries and restenosis after aortic coarctation stenting.
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