Clinical Applications of Cardiac CT

Section I. Epidemiology and Clinical Assessment

1. Epidemiology of Coronary Artery Disease
Tessa S. S. Genders, M. G. Myriam Hunink

2. Physiology and Pathophysiology of Coronary Circulation
Andrea I. Guaricci, Luigi Biase, Giancarlo Casolo

3. Subclinical Atherosclerosis and Primary Prevention
Giuseppe Tarantini, Paolo Buja, Michela Facchin

4. Chronic (Stable) Coronary Artery Disease
Giancarlo Casolo

5. Acute Coronary Syndrome: Clinical Assessment
Paolo Buja, Giuseppe Tarantini

Section II. Targets of Coronary and non Coronary Imaging

6. Coronary Plaques
Antonio L’Abbate, Massimo Lombardi, Gualtiero Pelosi

7. Myocardial Ischemia & Viability
Paolo G. Camici, Ornella Rimoldi

8. Left and Right Ventricular Function, Contractility, Geometry, and Mass
Andrea I. Guaricci, Natale Daniele Brunetti, Roberta Romito, Giancarlo Casolo, Matteo Biase

9. Pulmonary Veins and Cardiac Veins
Maurizio Greco, Flavia Ravelli, Massimiliano Marini

Section III. CT Semeiology

10. Heart Anatomy
Ludovico Grutta, Giovanni Gentile, Giuseppe Runza, Massimo Galia, Filippo Cademartiri, Massimo Midiri

11. Calcium Score and Coronary Plaque
Sara Seitun, Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Margherita Castiglione Morelli, Anselmo A. Palumbo, Filippo Cademartiri

12. Coronary Artery Stenosis on Cardiac CT
Sara Seitun, Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Margherita Castiglione Morelli, Filippo Cademartiri

13. Coronary Artery Stents
Francesca Pugliese, Katarzyna Gruszczynska, Ian Baron, Ceri L. Davies, Steffen E. Petersen

14. Evaluation of Bypass Grafts
Riccardo Marano, Giancarlo Savino, Carlo Liguori, Lorenzo Bonomo

15. Myocardial Viability and Stress Perfusion
Tust Techasith, Brian Ghoshhajra, Udo Hoffmann

16. Evaluation of Cardiac Volumetric and Functional Parameters
Giancarlo Messalli, Giuseppe Runza, Ludovico Grutta, Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Massimo Midiri, Jan Bogaert, Filippo Cademartiri

17. Cardiac Veins and Pulmonary Veins
Maurizio Centonze, Giulia Casagranda, Maurizio Greco, Andrea Laudon, Alessandro Cristoforetti, Giandomenico Nollo

18. Collateral Findings on Cardiac CT
Roberto Malagò, Camilla Barbiani, Andrea Pezzato, Ugolino Alfonsi, Erica Maffei, Roberto Pozzi Mucelli, Filippo Cademartiri

19. Reporting in Cardiac CT
Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Udo Hoffmann, Filippo Cademartiri

20. Training and Implementation in Cardiac CT
Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Filippo Cademartiri

Section IV. Technique

21. CT and CT Angiography — Basics
Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Filippo Cademartiri

22. CT of the Heart: Scan Technique
Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Filippo Cademartiri

23. Patient Preparation for Cardiac CT
Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Filippo Cademartiri

24. Contrast Material Administration in Cardiac CT
Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Filippo Cademartiri

25. Principles of Cardiac CT Scan Protocol Optimization
Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Filippo Cademartiri

26. Management of Radiation Dose in Cardiac CT
Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Filippo Cademartiri

27. Artifacts in Cardiac CT
Roberto Malagò, Andrea Pezzato, Camilla Barbiani, Ugolino Alfonsi, Erica Maffei, Filippo Cademartiri, Roberto Pozzi Mucelli

Section V. Clinical Applications

28. Diagnostic and Prognostic Value
Joanne D. Schuijf, Jacob M. Werkhoven, Jeroen J. Bax, Ernst E. Wall

29. Screening and High CV Risk Patients
Giancarlo Casolo

30. Thoracic Aortic Diseases
Vincenzo Russo, Francesco Buia, Giovanni Rinaldi, Giangaspare Mineo, Rossella Fattori

31. Clinical Indications of Cardiac CT
Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Sara Seitun, Filippo Cademartiri

Section VI. Other Diagnostic Modalities

32. Stress ECG
Pompilio Faggiano, Giacomo Faden, Livio Dei Cas

33. Rest and Stress Echocardiography
Fausto Rigo, Lauro Cortigiani, Elisabetta Grolla, Eugenio Picano

34. Nuclear Medicine - SPECT/PET
Alberto Cuocolo

35. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Carlo Tedeschi, Andrea I. Guaricci, Giuseppe Tarantini, Giancarlo Casolo, Filippo Cademartiri

36. Invasive Imaging of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaques
Francesco Prati, Michele Occhipinti, Luca Vito

37. Future Developments in Cardiac CT
Filippo Cademartiri, Erica Maffei, Chiara Martini, Sara Seitun, Giuseppe Tarantini

Nyckelord: Medicine & Public Health, Imaging / Radiology, Cardiology