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What does the angiogram show? The Echo? The CT coronary angiogram? How do you explain this?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Post cath ECG: Now there are hyperacute T-waves again, and recurrent ST depression in V2 This ECG would normally diagnostic of OMI until proven otherwise No further troponins were measured, but it looks like there is recurrent OMI Next day: A CT Coronary Angiogram was done (CTCA) CARDIAC MORPHOLOGY AND FUNCTION: 1. IMPRESSION: 1.

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Abstract 4142716: Double Guiding Catheter Technique for Orbital Atherectomy in a Heavily Calcified Coronary Bifurcation Using Microcatheter Protection for Non-atherectomy Wire

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4142716-A4142716, November 12, 2024. Background:Heavily calcified coronary bifurcation lesions present significant challenges during percutaneous coronary intervention, particularly during atherectomy due to the risk of side branch occlusion from plaque shift.

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What Lies Beneath

EMS 12-Lead

The coronary angiogram revealed no critical stenosis, or acute plaque ulceration. Takotsubo should be a diagnosis of exclusion after angiography reveals no obstructive coronary disease, and repeat Echo displays left ventricular recovery. Circulation, Vol 137, No 11, 1192-94. Circulation, Vol 139, No 16, 1974-76.

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Why You Probably Already Have Heart Disease But Just Don't Know It.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Heart disease, the build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries, typically starts years, if not decades, prior to an event. The most common way to assess the presence and extent of coronary artery disease is with a CT scan, called a CT CAC score or CT Coronary Angiogram. CT Coronary Angiogram.

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Electrical instability in a healthy 50 year old. How to manage?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

CT coronary angiogram showed a hypoplastic RCA and dominant LCx. There were no plaques or stenoses. CT angiogram showing a "hypoplastic" RCA and dominant LCx ( with distinction between what is a "smaller" RCA in a left-dominant circulation vs an RCA with a lumen that is "too small" sometimes being difficult ).