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  • Title: [Computed tomography in cardiology: the diagnostic aspects].
    Author: Rabkin IKh, Ovchinnikov VI, Iudin AL.
    Journal: Kardiologiia; 1985 Mar; 25(3):5-9. PubMed ID: 3999527.
    Abstract:
    Computerized tomography (CT) was used to investigate 306 patients with a variety of heart and aortal diseases: acquired and congenital defects, coronary disease, tumors of the heart, pericarditis, aortic aneurysm. CT allows the assessment of certain functional (end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes, the ejection fraction, the motility of left-ventricular walls, systolic myocardial thickening) as well as anatomical parameters of the heart structure: the condition of the pericardium, heart cavities, induration and calcification of the valve apparatus, myocardial thickness, the presence of intra-cavity formations, and the state of the aorta, pulmonary artery, vena cava and pulmonary veins, including the assessment of the patency of aortocoronary shunts.
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