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Chest CT With Iterative Reconstruction as an Alternative to Conventional Chest X-ray Prior to Heart Surgery

NCT02173470 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 866

Last updated 2020-06-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To assess if information about aortic calcification obtained from routine preoperative ultra low-dose chest CT lowers the postoperative stroke rate in patients undergoing heart surgery by optimizing surgical strategy compared to the normal work-up with a conventional chest X-ray.

Conditions

  • Cardiac Defects
  • Disorder; Heart, Functional, Postoperative, Cardiac Surgery
  • Stroke

Interventions

OTHER

CT scan

The intervention group receives both standard care (chest x-ray) and an ultra low dose CT thorax without contrast.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development

    collaborator OTHER

  • UMC Utrecht

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ricardo PJ Budde, MD, PhD · Erasmus MC Rotterdam

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-30
Primary Completion
2019-10-31
Completion
2020-06-30

Countries

  • Hungary
  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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Diseases

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