Currently, computed tomographic (CT) imaging of the heart is mainly used for the quantification of coronary artery calcification as an indirect measure of coronary plaque burden1,2 and, less frequently, for minimally invasive coronary angiography.3 CT imaging of the heart and coronary arteries without unsharpness due to motion artifact first became possible with the introduction of electron bea...

Radiomics uses advanced image analysis to extract massive amounts of quantitative information from digital images, which is not otherwise distinguishable the human eye. The mined data can be used explore and establish new undiscovered correlations between these imaging features clinical end points. Cardiac computed tomography (CT) a first-line modality for evaluating coronary artery disease has...

BACKGROUND The entity pseudoaneurysm arising from the mitral aortic intervalvular fibrosa (P-MAIVF) is a rare cardiac finding caused by multiple factors. This entity is usually diagnosed with echocardiography and confirmed with cardiac computed tomography (CT). CASE REPORT We presented a case of congenital P-MAIVF communicating with the left atrium (LA) and an aberrant right subclavian artery...

We report two cases of multiple distal borderzone ischaemic strokes associated with hypereosinophilia due to idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome in one patient and to acute Schistosoma mansoni infestation in the other. Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) was documented pathologically, in one case at autopsy and in the other after cardiac surgery; and by cardiac CT, with initially negative echocardi...

OBJECTIVE In this part 2 of our two-part article, we aim to describe the evaluation and interpretation of coronary CTA, cardiac structures, and cardiac functional assessment using an approach similar to the reporting of catheter angiography and echocardiography. CONCLUSION The superb resolution and the isotropic image data acquisition of ECG-gated coronary CT angiography (CTA) enable evaluati...

Multislice CT angiography represents one of the most exciting technological revolutions in cardiac imaging and it has been increasingly used in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Rapid improvements in multislice CT scanners over the last decade have allowed this technique to become a potentially effective alternative to invasive coronary angiography in patients with suspected coronary ar...