What can you perceive except for a human heart?
Image in interventional cardiovascular medicine: what is displayed on this image? ... And do not hesitate to comment on how you would treat this case!
The heart depicted belongs to a 60-year-old male patient who was referred to our hospital due to class II angina pectoris (CCS II) for 2 months. He had a SPECT performed, which depicted a perfusion defect in the territory of the left anterior descending artery. The patient had a coronary angiography performed and then came to our hospital for angioplasty of angiographically important coronary lesions.
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What can you perceive except for a human heart?
Authors
Dri Eirini1, Vaina Sofia1, Milkas Anastasios2, Tsioufis Konstantinos1
- Ippokrateio General Hospital of Athens, Athens, GREECE
- Hospital of Mytilene, Mitilini, GREECE
4 comments
Looks like LAD is the continuation of RCA
Nuclear stress test positive possible two reasons ischaemia from two reasons 1 significant occlusive lesion in LAD 2 compression from the anomalous origin LAD crossing between the PA and Aorta when crossing anteriorly ( septal ) ....angio may be near normal/ negative
Lad is continuing to rca
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