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HeartFlow Achieves Landmark Milestone of 250,000 Patients Assessed for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) with FFRCT Analysis

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Traditional methods of non-invasive ischemia testing (stress EKG , stress echo, SPECT , PET , direct-to-cath) can result in false negatives 20-30 percent of the time, which can lead to undetected disease, and false positives over 50 percent of the time, which can lead to unnecessary invasive procedures. Arbab-Zadeh, Heart Int 2012.

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Patient is informed of her husband's death: is it OMI or it stress cardiomyopathy?

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It is possible there is microvascular dysfunction producing residual transmural ischemia. But this is most common when there is prolonged ischemia, and this patient had the fastest reperfusion imaginable! Mechanisms of plaque formation and rupture. Coronary plaque disruption. Journal of Geriatric Cardiology , 19 (6).