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Who Needs a CT Coronary Angiogram?

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

CT coronary angiograms are increasing in popularity as a non-invasive screening test for detecting blocks in coronary arteries. Coronary arteries are blood vessels supplying oxygenated blood to the heart. Angiograms are images of blood vessels, usually obtained by injecting medications for contrast from body structures.

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Critical Left Main

EMS 12-Lead

It’s judicious, then, to arrange for coronary angiogram. Coronary occlusion, however, might be present concurrently with subendocardial ischemia on the time-zero ECG, or evolve into such. Proximal LAD disease with/without a) and b) It seemed quite apparent that this was an Acute Coronary Syndrome. Coronary Angiogram 1.

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A 30-something with Chest pain, elevated troponin, with Subtle ST Elevation and hyperacute T-waves.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

CT coronary angiogram is excellent , but is rarely available outside of business hours, and hardly ever at night. If suspicion of Non-OMI etiology is high, then emergent formal bubble contrast echo is very useful, but in myocarditis, it usually reveals a wall motion abnormality.

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Case Report: Lacosamide unmasking SCN5A-associated Brugada syndrome in a young female with epilepsy

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Workup including routine laboratory results, 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), echocardiogram, and coronary angiogram was non-specific. During the intravenous lacosamide infusion, the patient developed sudden cardiac arrest caused by ventricular arrhythmias necessitating resuscitation.

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Case Report: Comprehensive evaluation of ECG phenotypes and genotypes in a family with Brugada syndrome carrying SCN5A-R376H

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

The routine laboratory results, imaging study, coronary angiogram, and echocardiogram (ECG) were normal. Case We report the case of a 20-year-old man with variants in SCN5A and RyR2 genes who was resuscitated from sudden cardiac death during sleep due to a ventricular fibrillation. The patient did not have underlying diseases.