The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the impact of non-invasive coronary CT angiography in pilots and flight safety personnel of the German Armed Forces with suspected coronary heart disease (CHD). Coronary CT angiography allowed for excluding obstructive CHD in 78 of 110 (71%) included patients. Clinical follow-up, over a mean of 19 ±11 months, was uneventful in all but one patient. This patient with proven non-obstructive coronary atherosclerosis by CT, suffered from a myocardial infarction. Obstructive CHD was suspected by coronary CT angiography in 32 of 110 patients; invasive coronary angiography was performed in 19 of these patients, which confirmed the presence of obstructive CHD in all patients and 8 of these patients did undergo operative or percutaneous coronary revascularization. In summary, coronary CT angiography appears to be a very accurate and important diagnostic tool to assess CHD in aero-medicine.
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The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the impact of non-invasive coronary CT angiography in pilots and flight safety personnel of the German Armed Forces with suspected coronary heart disease (CHD). Coronary CT angiography allowed for excluding obstructive CHD in 78 of 110 (71%) included patients. Clinical follow-up, over a mean of 19 ±11 months, was uneventful in all but one patient. This patient with proven non-obstructive coronary atherosclerosis by CT, suffered from a myocardial i...
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