Even in challenging cases, CT angiography offers an accurate and rapid diagnosis for blunt trauma victims who may have aortic or great vessel injury negating the need for more invasive procedures ...

Helical CT of the thorax is more sensitive for blunt aortic injury than angiography and is estimated to have a sensitivity of 100%, as compared with 92% for angiography. 18 In one follow-up study ...

Whereas patients with isolated aortic injuries should undergo expeditious repair, patients with multisystem trauma may be at substantially increased risk of morbidity and mortality related to open ...

CT angiography showed aneurysmal dilatation of the infrarenal abdominal aorta (aortic diameter,... A 37-year-old woman with a history of injection-drug use was admitted with 3 weeks of abdominal pain.

Computed tomography angiography (CTA) can identify abnormalities and injury beyond the pulmonary arteries, including broken bones and heart disease, according to a study.

Pregnancy, delivery and iatrogenic aortic injury are other stressors on the heart that create vulnerability to aortic dissections. ... CT angiography being the most common. Treatment.

CT angiography successfully showed improvements made by glucocorticoid treatment in patients with giant-cell arteritis who presented with large-vessel vasculitis, according to researchers from the ...

Invasive angiography remains the standard for pre-transcatheter aortic valve replacement evaluation, but certain patients with clear CT images of the coronary arteries may not need the invasive ...

A positive CT angiography of the head and neck does not typically alter surgical treatment for a cervical spine injury, according to a study. The retrospective review included 381 patients who ...

Pulmonary CT Angiography Identifies Disease And Injury Beyond The Pulmonary Arteries In Children. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 08 ...

Pretranscatheter aortic valve replacement-CT angiography safely deferred the need for invasive coronary angiography in 53% of patients, according to a study published May 21 in Circulation ...