Use of electrocardiographic-gated 4-dimensional CT to assess patency of abdominal aortic branch vessels in type B dissection

Received 31 May 2009; accepted 5 October 2009. published online 15 October 2009.

Abstract

CT plays an important role in the evaluation of suspected aortic dissection. In this case, use of ECG gating and 4D imaging demonstrated of dynamically changing perfusion to an abdominal aortic visceral branch vessel in a type B dissection.

Keywords: Aortic dissection, ECG gating, Multidetector-row computed tomography, Visceral vessels

a Imaging Institute, Cardiovascular Section, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue/J1-4, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA

b Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

c Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Corresponding author.

Conflict of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

Supplementary material for this article may be found at http://www.CardiacCTjournal.com.

PII: S1934-5925(09)00507-3

doi:10.1016/j.jcct.2009.10.001

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