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Discrepancies between coronary CT angiography and invasive coronary angiography with focus on culprit lesions which cause future cardiac events.

Junghoon KimHyon Joo KwagSeung Min YooJin Young YooIn-Ho ChaeDong-Ju ChoiMin-Jae ParkMani VembarEun Ju Chun
Published in: European radiology (2017)
• Compared to ICA, PR in CCTA may be cause of false positive lesion. • CCTA-related value including PR shows higher prediction power of MACE than ICA-related value. • PR reflects atherosclerotic burden that can be related to cardiac events. • PR in CCTA should be observed carefully, even if it is false positive.
Keyphrases
  • left ventricular
  • coronary artery disease
  • coronary artery
  • heart failure