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Intravascular Imaging Can Improve Outcomes for Complex Stenting Procedures

DAIC

and European societal guidelines that intravascular imaging with either optical coherence tomography (OCT) or intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) should be routinely used during complex coronary stent procedures, s ays first authorGregg W. These results extend the strong recommendations from recent U.S.

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

Diamond and Forrester accomplished this by first establishing the prevalence of coronary artery disease based on how clinically likely patients with chest pain symptoms were found to have coronary disease based on a coronary angiogram. This happens. But its rare!

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How do I get that elusive courage, to diagnose false positive TMT, without CAG ?

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

We know, stress tests can give false positive results suggesting ischemia in at least 20% of patients for various reasons. The patient seeked by advice “It was indeed an academic stress test. Mostly, you can’t escape from a coronary angiogram” Next option is CT angiogram, Thallium or dobutamine stress.

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