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01-03-2014 | Case Report
Coronary CT angiography in the elderly
Authors:
R. Nijveldt, T. Pflederer, S. Achenbach
Published in:
Netherlands Heart Journal
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Issue 3/2014
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Abstract
People over 75 years of age represent a specific group of patients for which the clinician is often in doubt about what to do, whether additional diagnostic workup is helpful or a primary medical approach would suffice. However, this patient population is less prone to the long-term effects of radiation burden or contrast medium-induced nephropathy, and therefore it may be especially worthwhile to use advanced imaging techniques such as contrast-enhanced CT in these patients. The following cases illustrate two common diagnostic problems, in which coronary CT angiography decided the clinical course.