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Journal of the Saudi Heart Association, 2017 Background: Coronary artery anomalies (CAAs) affect about 1% of the general population based on invasive coronary angiography (ICA) data, computed tomography angiography (CTA) enables better visualization of the origin, course, relation to the adjacent ...
Osama A. Smettei +2 more
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The Impact of Coronary Artery Calcification on Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcomes
Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine, 2021 Decades of research and experimental studies have investigated various strategies to prevent acute coronary events. However, significantly efficient preventive methods have not been developed and still remains a challenge to determine if a coronary ...
Mitra Noémi +5 more
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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2019 Background Left ventricular global longitudinal strain (GLS) with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an important prognostic biomarker. Its everyday clinical use is limited due to methodological and postprocessing diversity among the users and ...
Robert Heinke +9 more
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Risks of cardiac imaging [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2011 With regard to the research article by Eisenberg and colleagues,[1][1] the authors only briefly note that the radiation-associated increase in cancer risk is higher than for atomic bomb survivors in the Life Span Study (LSS).[2][2] In the LSS, the excess relative risk per sievert (Sv) for the ...
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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2018 Background Functional impairment of the aorta is a recognized complication of aortic and aortic valve disease. Aortic strain measurement provides effective quantification of mechanical aortic function, and 3-dimenional (3D) approaches may be desirable ...
Alessandro Satriano +7 more
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Fat volume measurements as a predictor of image noise in coronary computed tomography angiography
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association, 2019 Introduction: Image noise can negatively affect the overall quality of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA). Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between image noise and fat volumes in the chest wall.
Rami M. Abazid +8 more
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Congenital Absence of Left Main Trunk – CCTA Evaluation of a Patient with Ischemic Heart Disease
Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine, 2021 Coronary artery anomalies represent a heterogeneous group of congenital diseases with various clinical presentations. Over time, the subject of coronary anomalies has been constantly changing in terms of definition, morphology, clinical manifestations ...
Țolescu Cosmin +4 more
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Study of Cardiac Masses: A Case Series
Medicina, 2023 Cardiac masses are currently studied using multimodality imaging. For diagnosis, different imaging techniques that can provide complementary information are used.
Jorge Joaquín Castro-Martín +6 more
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Analysis of three risk stratification systems in a Saudi population
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association, 2017 Introduction: Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Although there are a number of algorithms in use for determining the risk of coronary artery disease and thus predicting future cardiovascular events, the data available ...
Rami Abazid +2 more
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Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine, 2021 Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as a pandemic and public health crisis of an unprecedent effect. Clinical studies reported an association between COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease, whereas COVID-19 itself can induce ...
Oltean Péter Balázs +4 more
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