Effectiveness of multi-detector row CT before interventional radiology in patients with hemoptysis and lung tumors

We prospectively assessed the feasibility of multi-detector row CT (MDCT) in imaging the supplied vessels in thirteen patients of hemoptysis and/or lung tumors before interventional radiology. In our samples, treatment was successful in a total of nineteen arteries, of which seventeen were bronchial arteries and two were non-bronchial systemic arteries. The MDCT captured all seventeen bronchial arteries and one of the two non-bronchial arteries, while the conventional angiography only captured five bronchial arteries and none of the bronchial systemic arteries. Therefore, it is concluded that the MDCT offers higher accuracy in imaging the supplied vessels in patients of hemoptysis and/or lung tumors. The adoption of the MDCT would provide us with another option in thoracic interventional radiology. (author)