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Valvular Diseases and Interventions

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Cardiac valve anatomy (and more recently, function) can be visualized and assessed by cardiac CT. Though it still lacks the temporal resolution and hemodynamic evaluation of echocardiography, CT has the advantage of allowing routine three-dimensional (3D) depiction and assessment of valve structure and pathology. With the advent of minimally invasive interventions and transcatheter heart valve therapies such as transcatheter aortic valve implantation, CT has the potential to make a significant contribution to preprocedural planning and postprocedural evaluation, with an impact upon patient outcomes.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Centre for Heart Valve Innovation, St Paul’s Hospital, 2nd Floor, Providence Building, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6, Canada

    Philipp Blanke

  2. Department of Radiology, St Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6, Canada

    Angus Thompson

  3. Department of Radiology, St. Paul’s Hospital, 2nd Floor, Providence Building, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6, Canada

    Jonathon Leipsic

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Blanke, P., Thompson, A., Leipsic, J. (2018). Valvular Diseases and Interventions. In: Budoff, M., Achenbach, S., Hecht, H., Narula, J. (eds) Atlas of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7357-1_13

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