Resource utilization and healthcare management of invasive versus non-invasive strategy for cardiac allograft vasculopathy surveillance in heart transplantation

Marta Belmonte; Pasquale Paolisso; Monika Beles; Michele Mattia Viscusi; Luca Bergamaschi; Angelo Sansonetti; Emanuele Gallinoro; Giuseppe Esposito; Monika Shumkova; Attilio Leone; Marco Masetti; Emanuele Barbato; Sofie Verstreken; Riet Dierckx; Ward Heggermont; Jan Van Keer; Luciano Potena; Carmine Pizzi; Jozef Bartunek; Marc Vanderheyden

doi:10.1016/j.jcct.2024.11.002

Resource utilization and healthcare management of invasive versus non-invasive strategy for cardiac allograft vasculopathy surveillance in heart transplantation

J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 2024 Nov 29:S1934-5925(24)00498-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2024.11.002. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Marta Belmonte¹, Pasquale Paolisso², Monika Beles³, Michele Mattia Viscusi¹, Luca Bergamaschi⁴, Angelo Sansonetti⁴, Emanuele Gallinoro⁵, Giuseppe Esposito¹, Monika Shumkova³, Attilio Leone⁶, Marco Masetti⁴, Emanuele Barbato⁷, Sofie Verstreken⁸, Riet Dierckx³, Ward Heggermont³, Jan Van Keer³, Luciano Potena⁴, Carmine Pizzi⁴, Jozef Bartunek³, Marc Vanderheyden⁹

Affiliations

¹ Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium; Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University Federico II, Naples, Italy.
² Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium; IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
³ Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium.
⁴ Cardiology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences - DIMEC - Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
⁵ IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
⁶ Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University Federico II, Naples, Italy.
⁷ Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Cardiology Unit, Sant'Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy.
⁸ Heart Center, University Hospital Ghent, Belgium.
⁹ Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 39616124
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2024.11.002

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Keywords: Cardiac allograft vasculopathy; Coronary computed tomography angiography; Heart transplant; Intravascular ultrasound; Invasive coronary angiography; Plaque analysis.