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Clinical Conversation: Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography to Guide Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Expert Opinion from a SCAI/SCCT Roundtable
Program Description

Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) has emerged as an important tool for planning percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). While it has traditionally been employed for diagnostic purposes, increasing evidence and real-world experience suggest that CCTA can be used for the preprocedural planning of PCI and can inform patient triage, shared decision making, case complexity, and resource use. This approach mirrors how computed tomography angiography is routinely used to plan structural interventions. To address these emerging opportunities, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) and the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) organized a multidisciplinary, expert scientific roundtable on the use of CCTA for guiding PCI. In this Clinical Conversation the authors highlight the expert opinion, published in JSCAI. The document provides a state-of-the-art overview of CCTA-guided PCI focused on practical applications and key coronary lesion subsets, define unmet needs and barriers, and outline future directions 

Faculty and Program
Jonathon Leipsic, MD
Moderator
Yader Sandoval, MD, FSCAI
Presenting Author

Koen Nieman, MD, PhD
Panelist

Hector Garcia, MD
Panelist

Natalia Pinilla, MD, PhD, FSCAI
Panelist

   
Acknowledgement of Commercial Support
This activity is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Shockwave Medical.
Learning Objectives

At the end of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Explain the benefits of CCTA-guided PCI in improving patient outcomes and resource utilization. 
  • Assess the importance of preprocedural CCTA assessment for PCI planning, including disease complexity, lesion morphology, and vessel dimensions
  • Describe the barriers to the implementation of CCTA-guided PCI, including patient-specific, site-specific, hardware, software, and training challenges. 

 

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