Aortic valve stenosis-multimodality assessment with PET/CT and PET/MRI.
Evangelos TzolosJack Pm AndrewsMarc R DweckPublished in: The British journal of radiology (2019)
Aortic valve disease is the most common form of heart valve disease in developed countries and a growing healthcare burden with an ageing population. Transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography remains central to the diagnosis and surveillance of patients with aortic stenosis, providing gold standard assessments of valve haemodynamics and myocardial performance. However, other multimodality imaging techniques are being explored for the assessment of aortic stenosis, including combined PET/CT and PET/MR. Both approaches provide unique information with respect to disease activity in the valve alongside more conventional anatomic assessments of the valve and myocardium in this condition. This review investigates the emerging use of PET/CT and PET/MR to assess patients with aortic stenosis, examining how the complementary data provided by each modality may be used for research applications and potentially in future clinical practice.
Keyphrases
- pet ct
- aortic stenosis
- aortic valve
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- aortic valve replacement
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- disease activity
- left ventricular
- positron emission tomography
- healthcare
- ejection fraction
- contrast enhanced
- rheumatoid arthritis
- clinical practice
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- public health
- heart failure
- magnetic resonance imaging
- magnetic resonance
- computed tomography
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- coronary artery disease
- health information
- big data
- current status
- electronic health record
- mitral valve
- artificial intelligence