Computed Tomographic Angiography or Conventional Coronary Angiography in Clinical Decision Making (CARDUCCI)

University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease; Coronary Artery Stenosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00566059

CARDUCCI

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients planned for elective conventional coronary angiography will undergo CT coronary angiography (Dual Source CT) in order to assess the correlation of stenosis detection and therapeutic advice between conventional and CT coronary angiography. We hypothesize that their is a good correlation between conventional and CT coronary angiography for stenosis detection and therapeutic advice.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Over 50 years of age
• Scheduled for elective coronary angiography

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with known iodine allergy
• Severe renal insufficiency (creatinine levels > 120 micromol/L)
• Hyperthyroidism
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Unstable clinical condition
• Inability to follow breath-hold commands
• Previous PCI or CABG were excluded.