Assessment of Cardiac Lead Perforation: Comparison Among Chest Radiography, Transthoracic Echocardiography and Electrocardiography-gated Contrast-enhanced Cardiac CT.
Xiang ZhangChushan ZhengPeiwei WangDongye WangBoshui HuangGuozhao LiHuijun HuZehong YangXiaohui DuanShaoxin ZhengPinming LiuJingfeng WangJun ShenPublished in: European radiology (2018)
• ECG-gated contrast-enhanced cardiac CT has an accuracy of 98.1% in the diagnosis of cardiac lead perforation. • The AUROC of ECG-gated contrast-enhanced cardiac CT is higher than those of chest radiography and TTE imaging. • ECG-gated contrast-enhanced cardiac CT imaging has better diagnostic performance than both chest radiography and TTE imaging for the assessment of cardiac lead perforation.