Acute aortic dissection: All about this critical life-threatening disorder of the heart
CT scan of the aorta shows the exact nature of the tear and the extent of the pathology and the organs involved. When aortic ...
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P03 Clinical implications of incidental aortic or mitral valve calcification on a CT scan
Purpose Valve calcification is often an incidental finding in a CT scan visualising the heart. AVC and MVC/MAC are related to cardiovascular risk factors. However, clinical significance is unknown. A ...
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The three heart health tests you may not know you need
Certain types of aortic stenosis (narrowing of the valve between the left heart chamber and aorta) Coronary CT calcium scan provides a clearer picture of artery calcification A coronary CT calcium ...
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'I just had minutes left to live': Little known condition almost kills P.E.I. woman
Finally a CT scan revealed an aortic dissection, a condition most common with enlarged aortas where the different layers of the body's main artery begin to come apart. She was airlifted to ...
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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
About 3 out of 4 abdominal aortic aneurysms don't cause symptoms. An aneurysm may be found by X-ray, computed tomography (CT or CAT) scan, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that was done for other ...
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Inquest hears broken CT scanner and delays led to man's death at CUH
A widow has told an inquest that her husband went to Cork University Hospital with agonising chest pain, spent hours sitting ...
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Family of man who died after spending nine hours on chair in Cork hospital says lessons must be learned
Cork chemical engineer Pat Murphy died of an aortic dissection on September 3rd, 2021 at CUH having been misdiagnosed with a ...
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automated multiclass SEgmentation, QUantification, and visualizatiOn of the dIseased Aorta on hybrid PET/CT
A CT scan can be used as input in niftii format ... The output will look like: Data_folder ├── Patient1 │ └── Output_folder │ └── abd_aorta.nii │ └── aorta.nii │ └── aorta_combined.nii │ └── arc_aorta ...
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CUH should 'urgently' move to electronic record system, inquest recommends
A broken CT scanner, early misdiagnosis, and staff shortages all impacted the care of Dr Patrick Murphy, 34, from Glanmire, ...
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Factors Influencing AAo Dilatation After TAVI in Bicuspid Aortic Stenosis
The following is a summary of “Incidence and predictors of continued ascending aortic dilatation after TAVI in patients with ...