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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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CT Findings Don't Differentiate COVID-19 Lung Injury from Other Causes of Pneumonia
Based on six-reader review of 150 CT examinations, Brent P. Little, MD, of the Department of Radiology, and colleagues urge their fellow radiologists to recognize that CT features of COVID-19 pneumonia overlap not just with influenza pneumonia but also non-infectious organizing pneumonia.
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T1 Value on Cardiac MRI Diagnoses Myocarditis Associated with Checkpoint Inhibitors
Almost all patients with checkpoint inhibitor–associated myocarditis meet modified Lake Louise criteria for nonischemic myocardial injury on cardiac magnetic resonance. The T1 value also has a robust prognostic value.
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Discordance Across High-Sensitivity Troponin Assays Can Affect Management of Suspected ACS
Júlia Karády, MD, and Udo Hoffman, MD, MPH, of the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, observed marked discordance between high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays that would lead to different management of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome who had an inconclusive initial evaluation.
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
Viewpoint: New Insights Into Plaque Erosion as a Mechanism of Acute Coronary Syndromes
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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
Discordance Across High-Sensitivity Troponin Assays Can Affect Management of Suspected ACS
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