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ARRS COTW- November 19, 2018
CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING: Thoracic Arteries Case Author: Diana Litmanovich, MD, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center History 56-year-old woman with shortness of breath and known coagulopathy. Imaging Findings Axial (A) and coronal reformatted (B) contrast-enhanced MDCT images of the chest show a linear filling defect in the right lower lobe pulmonary artery. Correlating lung window CT image…
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ARRS Case of the Week- Apr 30, 2018
CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING: Thoracic Arteries Case Author: Diana Litmanovich, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center History 89-year-old man with chest pain. Imaging Findings MDCT angiogram of the chest (A) shows a large, irregular soft-tissue filling defect along the posterior aspect of the distal aortic arch that protrudes into the lumen. Coronal (B) and sagittal (C) reformatted…
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ARRS Case of the Week- Oct 23, 2017
From http://www.arrs.org/ARRSLIVE/CaseOfTheWeek. CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING: Coronary Arteries Case Author: Rachna Madan, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital History 62-year-old man with hypertension, atypical chest pain, and perfusion scintigraphic finding of mild apical ischemia. Imaging Findings Axial (A), curved planar (B), and short-axis (C) reformatted ECG-gated coronary angiograms reconstructed at 75% of the R-R interval show a lesion…
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ARRS Case of the Week- Aug 28, 2017
CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING: Coronary Arteries Case Author: Eric Kimura-Hayama, MD, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez History 55-year-old man with hypertension and dyslipidemia who reports having dyspnea. Imaging Findings Curved planar reformatted CT image of the right coronary artery (A) and corresponding short-axis images (B) obtained at the level between the white lines in A show…
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ARRS Case of the Week: July 31, 2017
CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING: Coronary Arteries Case Author: Eric Kimura-Hayama, MD, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez History 28-year-old woman with chest pain and no known cardiovascular risk factors who reports having a nonspecific rash and fever in childhood. Imaging Findings Double oblique maximum-intensity-projection CT images of the right coronary artery (A) and the left main trunk…