Coarctation of the aorta in adults: preoperative evaluation with MDCT angiography
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Tülay Ölçer; Aysel Türkvatan; Pınar Özdemir Akdur; Turhan Cumhur
- Source
- Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology.
- Subject
- Surgical results
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Coarctation of the aorta
Doppler echocardiography
Multidetector ct
medicine.disease
Computed tomographic
Angiography
cardiovascular system
medicine
Cardiac defects
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
cardiovascular diseases
Radiology
Tomography
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1305-3825
Purpose To evaluate the reliability of 16-slice multidetector computed tomographic (MDCT) angiography for the preoperative morphologic assessment of coarctation of the aorta in adults. Materials and methods Twenty-four adult patients with clinical suspicion of coarctation of the aorta who underwent both Doppler echocardiography and MDCT angiography were included in this study. The sensitivities of diagnosis were assessed comparing MDCT and Doppler echocardiography with surgical results. Results The overall sensitivity of three-dimensional MDCT for diagnosis of the coarctation of the aorta was 100%, which was higher than that of Doppler echocardiography (91%). The overall sensitivity of MDCT for the assessment of cardiac defects was 82%, which was lower than that of Doppler echocardiography (100%). Conclusion MDCT angiography with multiplanar and three-dimensional techniques should be the method of choice for preoperative morphologic assessment of coarctation of the aorta in adult patients.