Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 1, 2023

CT coronary angiography, in addition to a CT CAC, is arguably the best test for estimating whether someone has evidence of coronary artery disease and what that means for their near-term risk of a heart attack. Eur Heart J. 5 ISCHEMIA Research Group. This article is part 2 of a series on cardiac CT.

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Dr. Anish Koka

MAY 16, 2023

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. More cardiac injury means more dead heart muscle, and a larger scar.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Young people can suffer acute coronary occlusion, whether by typical atherosclerotic plaque rupture, or by coronary anomalies, coronary aneurysms, dissections, spasm, etc. The wall motion abnormalities of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and LAD OMI can be similar. Was this coincidence?

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