Echo HALT: do we really need a cardiac CT?
Giulia PassanitiFrancesca Romana PrandiSamin K SharmaAnnapoorna S KiniStamatios LerakisPublished in: The international journal of cardiovascular imaging (2023)
Leaflet thrombosis is usually an incidental finding and Cardiac CT is the gold standard for its diagnosis, but the classic features of hypoattenuation leaflet thickening (HALT) and hypoattenuation affecting motion (HAM) can also be seen on echocardiography and more specifically on trans-esophageal echocardiography. We describe a case of transcatheter aortic valve thrombosis where both the diagnosis and treatment were based exclusively on the echocardiographic evaluation, without the need of cardiac CT, with good outcome for the patient.
Keyphrases
- aortic valve
- left ventricular
- computed tomography
- contrast enhanced
- mitral valve
- aortic stenosis
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- image quality
- dual energy
- aortic valve replacement
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary embolism
- positron emission tomography
- magnetic resonance imaging
- heart failure
- magnetic resonance
- left atrial
- diffusion weighted
- case report
- clinical evaluation