Diagnosis of acute heart failure in CT pulmonary angiography: feasibility and accuracy.
Ilaria Vittoria de MartiniAdrian Raoul KobeChristian RoerenRobert MankaAndré EulerDagmar I KellerFrank RuschitzkaHatem AlkadhiMatthias EberhardPublished in: European radiology (2022)
• Heart failure is a common differential diagnosis in patients undergoing CT pulmonary angiography. • In emergency department patients undergoing CT pulmonary angiography and showing no pulmonary embolism, attenuation differences of the left and right ventricle have a high sensitivity for diagnosing acute heart failure.
Keyphrases
- acute heart failure
- computed tomography
- heart failure
- pulmonary embolism
- pulmonary hypertension
- patients undergoing
- optical coherence tomography
- dual energy
- image quality
- emergency department
- contrast enhanced
- positron emission tomography
- inferior vena cava
- magnetic resonance imaging
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- mitral valve
- magnetic resonance
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- atrial fibrillation
- adverse drug