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Gaps Remain in Preventative Care of Patients With Nonobstructive CAD Discovered in ED Visits
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have become the first to study both hospital and long-term outpatient management after nonobstructive coronary artery disease is detected by computed tomography angiography performed in the emergency department.
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Rare Coronary Artery Anomaly Can Cluster in Families, Cause Major Cardiac Events
Cardiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital encountered a very rare case in which a father and adult son, both of whom presented with chest pain and had the right coronary artery arising from the left coronary sinus.
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New England Journal of Medicine Case Records: A 41-Year-Old Woman with Recurrent Chest Pain
A 41-year-old woman presented to Massachusetts General Hospital with chest pain
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Screening Emergency Department Patients with Chest Pain Symptoms Using Coronary CT Angiography
The noninvasive imaging modality coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) offers a means to evaluate these patients with chest pain symptoms both safely and efficiently.
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Coronary Artery Calcium Testing Helps Rule Out ACS in the ED
A Mass General study found that combining coronary artery calcium (CAC) testing with Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) score can better rule out acute coronary syndrome (ACS) than use of TIMI alone for symptomatic patients presenting at the ED
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PE Survivors May Benefit from Exercise Rehabilitation
Researchers determined that impairments in exercise capacity in patients following pulmonary embolism were due to deconditioning, suggesting a role for prescribing exercise rehabilitation to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.
Cardiovascular Imaging contributors
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Brian B. Ghoshhajra, MD, MBA
Service Chief, Cardiovascular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Program Director, Cardiac Imaging Fellowship, Department of Radiology
Recent Article
Screening Emergency Department Patients with Chest Pain Symptoms Using Coronary CT Angiography
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Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD
Director, Cardiology Laboratory for Integrative Physiology and Imaging
Recent Article
Healed Plaques Signal Vulnerability to Future Acute Coronary Syndrome
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Udo Hoffmann, MD
Director, Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Mass General, Division Chief, Cardiovascular Imaging, Mass General, Professor of Radiology, HMS
Recent Article
Gaps Remain in Preventative Care of Patients With Nonobstructive CAD Discovered in ED Visits
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