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Imaging Techniques for Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Atherosclerosis
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Jansen Klomp WW
; Brandon Bravo Bruinsma GJ
; van 't Hof AW
; Grandjean JG
; Nierich AP
Int J Vasc Med
2016[]; 2016
(?): 4726094
PMID26966580
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The most severe complications after cardiac surgery are neurological
complications including stroke which is often caused by emboli merging from
atherosclerosis in the ascending aorta to the brain. Information about the
thoracic aorta is crucial in reducing the embolization risk for both surgical
open and closed chest procedures such as transaortic heart valve implantation.
Several techniques are available to screen the ascending aorta, for example,
transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), epiaortic ultrasound, TEE A-view method,
manual palpation, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. This paper
provides a description of the advantages and disadvantages of these imaging
techniques.