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Author(s):
Yukiko Isekame
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Sabiha Gati
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Jose Antonio Aragon-Martin
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3 years ago
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a disease in which connective tissue becomes weak secondary to fibrillin-1 mutations, resulting in aortic dilatation, aneurysm formation, aortic dissection, aortic regurgitation and mitral valve prolapse (MVP; see Table 1).
Epidemiology
MFS is an autosomal dominant condition: 75 % of all patients inherit the condition from one affected parent and 25 % are affected as…
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Author(s):
Alessandro Cavalcanti Lianza
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Maria de Fátima Rodrigues Diniz
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Karen Saori Shiraishi Sawamura
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8 months ago
Author(s):
Christos-Konstantinos Antoniou
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Panagiota Manolakou
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Nikolaos Magkas
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et al
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3 years ago
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) has been a cornerstone in the treatment of select advanced heart failure cases since its introduction to our armamentarium in the early 2000s.1 Indeed, 30–60% of advanced heart failure patients exhibit evidence of dyssynchrony, when defined electrocardiographically or mechanically.2–4 The latter is a consequence of the former. CRT has several unique…
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Author(s):
Felipe Martínez
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Eduardo Perna
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Sergio V Perrone
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3 years ago
Chagas disease was initially described as an endemic health problem in a few countries in South America – mainly Argentina and Brazil – and one of the consequences of the disease, heart damage, made it an interesting issue for healthcare professionals, from epidemiologists to cardiologists.1 Chagas cardiomyopathy (ChCM) is now recognised as a cardiovascular disorder, diagnosed and treated not…
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Author(s):
Eugenio Picano
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3 years ago
Sources of Radiation Exposure
Radiation used in medical examinations and tests is the largest man-made source of radiation exposure. The biological effects of the radiation dose received is expressed in milliSievert (mSv), with the effective dose of 1 mSv corresponding to the radiation dose of 50 chest X-rays. An average of 2.4 mSv per head per year comes from natural sources (see Figure 1).1…
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Author(s):
Denis Tack
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3 years ago
The overall increase in patient irradiation caused by the growing use of spiral- and multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) is of particular relevance for thoracic imaging. The number of clinical indications for thoracic CT has steadily increased, and CT has become a first-line imaging tool for diseases previously imaged with chest radiography, ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy and…
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Author(s):
Hasan Jilaihawi
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João L Cavalcante
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Nicolas M Van Mieghem
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1 year ago
Medical Imaging within the cardiovascular arena is constantly subject to changes and new innovations. Pie Medical Imaging (PMI) is a software company that strives to be a front runner in this field.
This page gives an overview of PMI’s latest software developments.
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Ziad A Ali
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1 year ago
BCIS ACI 2023 – Dr Ziad Ali (St Francis Hospital & Heart Center, Roslyn, NY, US) summarises his ACI keynote lecture on intracoronary imaging in acute coronary syndromes. Dr Ali briefly discusses the FLAVOUR trial demonstrated that in patients with with intermediate coronary stenosis, FFR-guided PCI is noninferior to IVUS-guided PCI.
Recorded on-site BCIS ACI 2023, London.
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Author(s):
Osman Ratib
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3 years ago
Recent developments in advanced imaging modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), multidetector computed tomography (CT) and hybrid modalities such as positron emission tomography-CT (PET-CT) bring new dimensions to diagnostic investigations of cardiovascular disease. These modalities extend the existing wide range of image-based diagnostic procedures that are commonly used in…
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