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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Abdelrahman Ibrahim Abushouk, MD[2]


Overview

Cardiac CT scanning with angiography (CTA) can be helpful in detecting the complication of heart failure, as well excluding ischemia as a cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (calcium coronary score and myocardial perfusion analysis).

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Cardiac CT scanning with angiography (CTA) can be useful to:

  • Diagnose heart failure: by calculating the biventricular volume and ejection fraction with good correlation to echocardiography.
  • Assessing the regional wall motion (with cine-loop formatting).[1]
  • Excluding ischemia as a cause for DCM (Cardiac CTA has a 98% diagnostic sensitivity and 97% specificity in excluding ischemic cardiomyopathy). Also, Myocardial perfusion analysis of the coronary arteries is also beneficial.[2]
  • Differential diagnosis of DCM from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, and left ventricular noncompaction.[3]
Cardiac CT scan showing enlarged cardiac chambers, in particular dilated ventricles. Case Courtesy: James Heliman, MD[4]


References

  1. Lessick J, Mutlak D, Rispler S, Ghersin E, Dragu R, Litmanovich D; et al. (2005). "Comparison of multidetector computed tomography versus echocardiography for assessing regional left ventricular function". Am J Cardiol. 96 (7): 1011–5. doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2005.05.062. PMID 16188534.
  2. Bhatti S, Hakeem A, Yousuf MA, Al-Khalidi HR, Mazur W, Shizukuda Y (2011). "Diagnostic performance of computed tomography angiography for differentiating ischemic vs nonischemic cardiomyopathy". J Nucl Cardiol. 18 (3): 407–20. doi:10.1007/s12350-011-9346-3. PMID 21328027.
  3. Levine A, Hecht HS (2015). "Cardiac CT Angiography in Congestive Heart Failure". J Nucl Med. 56 Suppl 4: 46S–51S. doi:10.2967/jnumed.114.150441. PMID 26033904.
  4. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/DifCardioMag.png/

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