Cardiac Imaging Modalities in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in advanced countries. Early detection and diagnosis of coronary artery disease plays an important role in the identification of disease severity and prediction of disease outcome, consequently improving patient management. Diagnosis and manageme...

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Main Author: Sun, Zhonghua
Format: Journal Article
Published: OMICS Publishing group 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39450
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description Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in advanced countries. Early detection and diagnosis of coronary artery disease plays an important role in the identification of disease severity and prediction of disease outcome, consequently improving patient management. Diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease is increasingly dependent on less-invasive imaging modalities, including coronary CT angiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, cardiac radionuclide imaging such as SPECT and PET modalities. Rapid developments of these imaging modalities have significantly improved the diagnostic performance of each imaging technique with high diagnostic accuracy achieved in both diagnostic and prognostic value in coronary artery disease. This editorial provides an overview of the diagnostic applications of a variety of less-invasive imaging modalities in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. This special issue of “Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease: Part II” in the journal of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology will give particular attention to contributions focusing on the clinical applications of these imaging modalities in the arteriosclerotic vascular disease, in particular, coronary artery disease.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-394502017-09-13T14:23:35Z Cardiac Imaging Modalities in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease Sun, Zhonghua Imaging modalities Coronary artery disease Diagnostic value Arteriosclerotic vascular - disease Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in advanced countries. Early detection and diagnosis of coronary artery disease plays an important role in the identification of disease severity and prediction of disease outcome, consequently improving patient management. Diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease is increasingly dependent on less-invasive imaging modalities, including coronary CT angiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, cardiac radionuclide imaging such as SPECT and PET modalities. Rapid developments of these imaging modalities have significantly improved the diagnostic performance of each imaging technique with high diagnostic accuracy achieved in both diagnostic and prognostic value in coronary artery disease. This editorial provides an overview of the diagnostic applications of a variety of less-invasive imaging modalities in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. This special issue of “Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease: Part II” in the journal of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology will give particular attention to contributions focusing on the clinical applications of these imaging modalities in the arteriosclerotic vascular disease, in particular, coronary artery disease. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39450 10.4172/2155-9880.S6-e001 OMICS Publishing group fulltext
spellingShingle Imaging modalities
Coronary artery disease
Diagnostic value
Arteriosclerotic vascular - disease
Sun, Zhonghua
Cardiac Imaging Modalities in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
title Cardiac Imaging Modalities in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
title_full Cardiac Imaging Modalities in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
title_fullStr Cardiac Imaging Modalities in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
title_full_unstemmed Cardiac Imaging Modalities in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
title_short Cardiac Imaging Modalities in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
title_sort cardiac imaging modalities in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease
topic Imaging modalities
Coronary artery disease
Diagnostic value
Arteriosclerotic vascular - disease
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39450