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(2) Methods: Patients with recent RT-PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection referred for coronary CTA for clinical indications (e.g., chest pain, troponin+, and ECG abnormalities) were included. Coronary CTA findings, such as atypical coronary lesions suggestive of vasculitis, perivascular inflammation measured by using pericoronary fat attenuation (PCAT) index, coronary artery disease, and extracoronary findings were collected. (3) Results: Results for 12 patients (54.8 \u00b1 22 years; four females) with SARS-CoV-2 infection within 60 days (four acute care and eight stable patients) are reported. Time to positive RT-PCR was a mean of 15.1 days (range, 0\u201351). In four acute patients with signs of myocardial injury, plaque rupture (n = 1), hyperenhancing myocardium\/MINOCA (n = 1), MINOCA (n = 1), and pericarditis with acute heart failure (LVEF 20%) (n = 1) were found. All (100%) had pericardial effusion and signs of perivascular inflammation. Among eight stable patients, pericardial effusion or perivascular inflammation were found in only two (25%). Coronary artery disease was ruled out in five (62.5%) (4) Conclusions: Coronary CTA is a useful imaging modality in the diagnostic work up of patients with COVID-19 infection, and is able to describe coronary and other cardiac abnormalities.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcdd11100325","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,14]],"date-time":"2024-10-14T12:44:31Z","timestamp":1728909871000},"page":"325","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) Findings in COVID-19"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-4049-4494","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pietro G.","family":"Lacaita","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0445-8372","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anna","family":"Luger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fabian","family":"Plank","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department Internal Medicine, Tyrol Clinicum Hall, 6060 Hall, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4456-1822","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fabian","family":"Barbieri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, Charit\u00e9\u2014Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin and Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christoph","family":"Beyer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Theresa","family":"Thurner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Gesundheitszentrum Lanserhof, 6072 Lans, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yannick","family":"Scharll","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5139-4287","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Johannes","family":"Deeg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7255-0672","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gerlig","family":"Widmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6755-4399","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gudrun M.","family":"Feuchtner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1031","DOI":"10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.051828","article-title":"Microthrombi as a Major Cause of Cardiac Injury in COVID-19: A Pathologic Study","volume":"143","author":"Pellegrini","year":"2021","journal-title":"Circulation"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"42","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pcad.2023.10.006","article-title":"Characteristics of patients with recurrent acute myocardial infarction after MINOCA","volume":"81","author":"Ciliberti","year":"2023","journal-title":"Prog. 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