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The Advantages Of A CT Coronary Angiogram

Dr. Paddy Barrett

A CTCA provides much more anatomical detail and can identify advanced plaque often missed by CT Coronary Artery Calcium Score scans alone. CT Coronary Artery Calcium Score Scan CT Coronary Artery Calcium Score CT Coronary Angiogram As you can see from the above images, the CTCA provides far more anatomical detail.

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A 30-something woman with intermittent CP, a HEART score of 2 and a Negative CT Coronary Angiogram on the same day

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A CT Coronary angiogram was ordered. Here are the results: --Minimally obstructive coronary artery disease. --LAD Although a lesion is not visible anatomically on this CT scan, coronary catheter angiography could be considered based on Cardiology evaluation." A repeat troponin returned at 0.45 CAD-RADS category 1. --No

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A 50-something with Regular Wide Complex Tachycardia: What to do if electrical cardioversion does not work?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Past medical history includes coronary stenting 17 years prior. If you take old people with a history of MI (he had a stent), that percentage goes far higher since there is scar tissue that acts as a nidus for the PVCs that initiate VT. Coronary angiogram shows diffuse severe three-vessel disease.

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See OMI vs. STEMI philosophy in action

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Here is the coronary angiogram: A distal thrombotic right coronary artery (RCA) occlusion ! The lesion was successfully stented. Here is the post-intervention angiogram and post-PCI ECG. A significant amount of thrombotic material was aspirated by manual thrombectomy (see below for aspirated thrombi). 2021.21026.

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"Anterior" ST Depression: Which Lesion is the Culprit?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The proximal and mid LAD stenoses were stented and the OM 2 was left alone. Heitner et al found that in 14% of patients with NSTEMI, a blinded interventional cardiologist interpreting coronary angiograms identified a different culprit artery than CMR ( [link] ). Based on the EKGs, which lesion is most likely the culprit?