Investigating Patients for CAD Before Cardiac Valve Surgery: Is CT Angiography Enough?

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¹ Department of Radiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: dewey@charite.de.
² Institute of Medical Statistics, Computer Sciences and Documentation, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.

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Marc Dewey et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Sep.

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. 2016 Sep;9(9):1071-1073.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.11.032. Epub 2016 Jun 22.

¹ Department of Radiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: dewey@charite.de.
² Institute of Medical Statistics, Computer Sciences and Documentation, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.

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Keywords: coronary angiography; coronary computed tomography angiography; meta-analysis; valvular heart disease.

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CT Angiography for the Detection of Coronary Artery Stenoses in Patients Referred for Cardiac Valve Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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