CT attenuation measurements are valuable to discriminate pledgets used in prosthetic heart valve implantation from paravalvular leakage - Habets, J; Meijer, T S; Meijer, R C A; Mali, W P Th M; Vonken, E-J P A; Budde, R P J (British journal of radiology, 2012)
Keywords: Algorithms; Animals; Aortic Valve - surgery; Aortography; Diagnosis, Differential; Heart Valve Prosthesis - adverse effects; Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - adverse effects; Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - instrumentation; Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - methods; Hemorrhage - diagnostic imaging; Hemorrhage - etiology; In Vitro Techniques; Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Sutures; Swine; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods