1. Multidetector Computed Tomography Diagnosis and Cine Imaging of Left Main Coronary Arterial Dissection
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Jennifer E. Runco Therrien, Eduard Ghersin, Joel E. Fishman, and Tanyanan Tanawuttiwat
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Male ,Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronary Vessel Anomalies ,Myocardial Ischemia ,Contrast Media ,Coronary Angiography ,Diagnosis, Differential ,Electrocardiography ,Multidetector Computed Tomography ,Multidetector computed tomography ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Vascular Diseases ,cardiovascular diseases ,Artery dissection ,Aged ,Arterial dissection ,business.industry ,Gold standard (test) ,Iopamidol ,The primary diagnosis ,Radiographic Image Enhancement ,Invasive coronary angiography ,Cine imaging ,cardiovascular system ,Tomography ,Radiology ,business - Abstract
Coronary artery dissection (CD) is a rare cause of acute myocardial ischemia. It is often diagnosed by invasive coronary angiography, which is the principal diagnostic tool and gold standard in the diagnosis and triage of patients with CD. More recently, electrocardiogram-gated multidetector computerized tomography has emerged as a complementary imaging tool primarily for follow-up purposes. To our knowledge, this is the first published report of the primary diagnosis and dynamic cine interrogation of a left main CD using retrospective electrocardiogram-gated multidetector computerized tomography, which was not disclosed on invasive coronary angiography.
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- 2012
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