Cardiac computed tomography has evolved into a comprehensive imaging modality offering anatomical and functional information to guide patient management across various cardiovascular conditions.
What are the appropriate clinical applications and indications for cardiac computed tomography in different clinical scenarios?
This consensus document provides updated indications for the appropriate use of cardiac CT, including emerging technologies like CT-FFR and perfusion imaging, across various clinical scenarios.
Cardiac computed tomography (CT) was initially developed as a non-invasive diagnostic tool to detect and quantify coronary stenosis. Thanks to the rapid technological development, cardiac CT has become a comprehensive imaging modality which offers anatomical and functional information to guide patient management. This is the second of two complementary documents endorsed by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging aiming to give updated indications on the appropriate use of cardiac CT in different clinical scenarios. In this article, emerging CT technologies and biomarkers, such as CT-derived fractional flow reserve, perfusion imaging, and pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation, are described. In addition, the role of cardiac CT in the evaluation of atherosclerotic plaque, cardiomyopathies, structural heart disease, and congenital heart disease is revised.
Pontone et al. (Tue,) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease. Cardiac computed tomography was evaluated. Cardiac computed tomography has evolved into a comprehensive imaging modality offering anatomical and functional information to guide patient management across various cardiovascular conditions.