Sergio Tapia Concha, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Pedro Muñoz Cacho, José Manuel Cifrian Martínez, Javier Zueco Gil, José Antonio Parra Blanco
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Abstract
Introduction and objective: The pre-transplant protocol for lung transplant candidates includes a chest CT scan to assess disease progression and often coronary angiography (CA) to rule out coronary artery disease (CAD). Coronary artery calcium is commonly observed in these pre-transplant CT scans. This study aims to evaluate the relationship between coronary calcium detected on CT and findings from CA to determine whether calcium presence could serve as an additional criterion for selecting patients for CA. Material and Methods: We included 252 consecutive lung transplant patients who had both a CT scan and CA within 365 days of each other. Coronary calcium quantification was performed using artery-based, segment artery-based, and visual assessment methods. CA findings were classified by stenosis severity: ≤20%, 21-70%, and >70%. Results: This study showed very high concordance (kappa = 0.896; 95% CI: 0.843-0.948) between the three methods, especially in distinguishing patients without and with coronary calcium (kappa = 1.000; 95% CI: 0.929-1.071). ROC analysis identified the absence of coronary calcium as the best cutoff to differentiate patients with ≤20% stenosis from those with >21%, with a sensitivity of 73.5%, specificity of 55.7%, PPV of 28.5%, and NPV of 90%. Only 11 patients (8.7%) without coronary calcium had stenosis of 21-70%, and only 2 (1.6%) had stenosis > 70%. Conclusions: The visual assessment method yielded results similar to the other two quantification methods. The absence of coronary calcium in pre-transplant CT may be a useful criterion for selecting patients for CA.
TomographyMedicine-Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
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2.70
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10.50%
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222
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TomographyTM publishes basic (technical and pre-clinical) and clinical scientific articles which involve the advancement of imaging technologies. Tomography encompasses studies that use single or multiple imaging modalities including for example CT, US, PET, SPECT, MR and hyperpolarization technologies, as well as optical modalities (i.e. bioluminescence, photoacoustic, endomicroscopy, fiber optic imaging and optical computed tomography) in basic sciences, engineering, preclinical and clinical medicine.
Tomography also welcomes studies involving exploration and refinement of contrast mechanisms and image-derived metrics within and across modalities toward the development of novel imaging probes for image-based feedback and intervention. The use of imaging in biology and medicine provides unparalleled opportunities to noninvasively interrogate tissues to obtain real-time dynamic and quantitative information required for diagnosis and response to interventions and to follow evolving pathological conditions. As multi-modal studies and the complexities of imaging technologies themselves are ever increasing to provide advanced information to scientists and clinicians.
Tomography provides a unique publication venue allowing investigators the opportunity to more precisely communicate integrated findings related to the diverse and heterogeneous features associated with underlying anatomical, physiological, functional, metabolic and molecular genetic activities of normal and diseased tissue. Thus Tomography publishes peer-reviewed articles which involve the broad use of imaging of any tissue and disease type including both preclinical and clinical investigations. In addition, hardware/software along with chemical and molecular probe advances are welcome as they are deemed to significantly contribute towards the long-term goal of improving the overall impact of imaging on scientific and clinical discovery.