Coronary risk of patients with valvular heart disease: prospective validation of CT-Valve Score.
Rasmus Bo HasselbalchMia Marie Pries-HejeSarah Louise Kjølhede HolleThomas EngstrømMerete HeitmannFrants PedersenMorten SchouHans MickleyHanne ElmingRolf SteffensenLars KoeberKasper IversenPublished in: Open heart (2020)
The CT-Valve score is a valid method for determining risk of CAD among patients with valvular heart disease. Using a score ≤7 as a cut-off for the use of MSCT is safe and cost-effective.
Keyphrases
- aortic valve
- coronary artery disease
- aortic stenosis
- atrial fibrillation
- mitral valve
- computed tomography
- image quality
- dual energy
- pulmonary hypertension
- contrast enhanced
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- coronary artery
- positron emission tomography
- heart failure
- magnetic resonance
- ejection fraction
- left ventricular