Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Not applicable, Arteriosclerosis, Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis, CT-Angiography, Cardiovascular system, Cardiac, Multicentre study
Authors:
E. Pinto1, D. Penha1, S. Srivastava1, M. Ntouskou1, C. Monaghan1, M. D. McCreavy1, T. Fairbairn1, L. Taborda-Barata2, K. L. Irion3; 1Liverpool/UK, 2Covilhã/PT, 3Manchester/UK
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2020/C-08409
Background
Coronary CTA is growing rapidly in its application and has proved to improve patient assessment and care. However, its development and clinical service implementation is heterogeneous, divided by cardiologists and radiologists alike, which has implications in standardising techniques and reporting metrics.
CAD-RADS - Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System is a standardized method to report findings of coronary CT angiography (coronary CTA) that enables faster and standard decision-making regarding further patient management. It is a joint effort from all stakeholders involved in coronary CTA to improve communication and management of caranory care.
CAD-RADS classification is applied on a per-patient basis and represents the highest-grade coronary artery lesion documented by coronary CTA.
Classification ranges from CAD-RADS 0 with complete absence of stenosis and plaque to CAD-RADS 5 with least one totally occluded coronary artery.
Modifiers are used to add information regarding non-diagnostic quality of the study (N modifier), the presence of a stent (S modifier), the presence of a graft (G modifier) and the presence of a vulnerable plaque (V modifier).