Low yield of routine preoperative coronary computed tomography angiography in patients evaluated for liver transplantation

Affiliations

¹ From the Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Medicine and Radiology; Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology; and Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. mdicarli@partners.org.
² From the Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Medicine and Radiology; Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology; and Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Editorial

Marcelo F Di Carli et al. Circulation. 2014.

. 2014 Oct 14;130(16):1337-9.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.011918. Epub 2014 Aug 5.

¹ From the Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Medicine and Radiology; Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology; and Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. mdicarli@partners.org.
² From the Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Medicine and Radiology; Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology; and Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

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Keywords: Editorials; atherosclerosis; liver transplantation; tomography, X-ray computed.

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Prevalence and prediction of coronary artery disease in patients with liver cirrhosis: a registry-based matched case-control study.
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