Computed tomography to identify risk factors for left circumflex artery injury during mitral surgery.
Noriaki KishimotoYosuke TakahashiHiromichi FujiiYoshito SakonShinichiro IzutaRyoko KitadaAkimasa MorisakiHisako YoshidaShoichi EharaToshihiko ShibataPublished in: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (2021)
The anatomical relationship between the LCX and the mitral annulus can be recognized using superimposed 3D-CT images. This approach is useful to avoid LCX injury in mitral valve surgery since the X point varies between patients.
Keyphrases
- mitral valve
- computed tomography
- minimally invasive
- left atrial
- left ventricular
- coronary artery bypass
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- dual energy
- positron emission tomography
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- aortic stenosis
- image quality
- deep learning
- magnetic resonance imaging
- prognostic factors
- surgical site infection
- contrast enhanced
- heart failure
- optical coherence tomography
- aortic valve
- magnetic resonance
- convolutional neural network
- patient reported