The Hammock Sign in Computed Tomography as a Detection Aid for Bicuspid Aortic Valves.
Daniel DevosCharlotte Van LangenhoveLaurence CampensPublished in: Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology (2023)
The hammock sign allows for a quick and easy diagnosis of an anatomical bicuspid aortic valve, merely by scrolling through the standard coronal reconstructions of any type of contrast-enhanced thoracic CT study, and regardless of any other findings associated with bicuspid aortic valve. Functional bicuspid aortic valves were not the scope of this study.
Keyphrases
- aortic valve
- aortic stenosis
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- contrast enhanced
- aortic valve replacement
- computed tomography
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- magnetic resonance imaging
- image quality
- magnetic resonance
- diffusion weighted
- heart failure
- coronary artery disease
- spinal cord
- left ventricular
- coronary artery
- quantum dots
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- pulmonary hypertension