Abstract
Introduction: Cardiac computed tomography is increasingly being performed prior to CTO procedures to assess the anatomy of the occluded coronary segment, to help define interventional strategy and predict success rates. Assessment of myocardial viability is predominantly a domain of echocardiography, SPECT and magnetic resonance imaging. On the other hand, CT allows particularly accurate assessment of myocardial thickness. We therefore assessed the diagnostic value of regional left ventricular wall thickness in CT to identify myocardial viability compared to myocardial late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging.
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