Cardiac: Congestive Heart Failure: Chf Imaging Pearls - Educational Tools | CT Scanning | CT Imaging

Cardiac: Congestive Heart Failure: Chf Imaging Pearls - Educational Tools | CT Scanning | CT Imaging | CT Scan Protocols - CTisus

Imaging Pearls ❯ Cardiac ❯ Congestive Heart Failure: CHF

"Retrograde opacification of the inferior vena cava or hepatic veins on CT is a specific but insensitive sign of right sided heart disease at low contrast injection rates, but the usefullness of this classic sign decreases with high injection rates."

Clinical Relevance of Retrograde Inferior Vena Cava or Hepatic Vein Opacification During Contrast Enhanced CT Yeh BM et al. AJR 2004; 183:1227-1232