Clinical utility of two-phase computed tomography angiography for the detection of myocardial perfusion defects related to acute coronary syndrome in patients with acute chest pain: a case series.

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Article in European heart journal. Case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Dual-phase computed tomography imaging in acute chest pain: emerging protocols and potential future implications.European heart journal. Case reports · 2021
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Enrique VallejoCardiovascular Imaging at American British Cowdray Hospital, Centro Medico ABC, Calle Sur 136, No 116, Torre Sur 4o Piso, Interior 2, Colonia Las Americas, Delegación Alvaro Obregon, C.P. 01120, Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8396-7708

Christian Buelna-CanoCardiovascular Imaging at American British Cowdray Hospital, Centro Medico ABC, Calle Sur 136, No 116, Torre Sur 4o Piso, Interior 2, Colonia Las Americas, Delegación Alvaro Obregon, C.P. 01120, Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0280-6086

Centro Médico ABC · MX

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Abstract

backgroundEvaluation of acute chest pain (ACP) in the emergency department is a major health issue and differential diagnosis remains challenging for the physician, particularly in patients with atypical symptoms and inconclusive changes in electrocardiogram (ECG) or biomarkers levels. CASE SUMMARY: We present the potential value of the two-phase computed tomography angiography (TP-CTA) imaging protocol done in six different patients evaluated with ACP and underwent non-gated or gated computed tomography angiography (CTA) to exclude pulmonary embolism (PE), acute aortic syndrome (AAS), or acute coronary syndrome (ACS). All patients had new-onset chest pain and atypical clinical presentation with non-diagnostic ECG and initially negative or near-normal cardiac biomarkers. DISCUSSION: The evaluation of myocardial computed tomography perfusion (MCTP) using TP-CTA imaging protocol might open a new diagnostic approach to evaluate MCTP in patients with ACP related to PE, AAS, or ACS.

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Acute chest painAcute coronary syndromeCase seriesComputed tomography angiographyEmergency departmentMyocardial CT perfusion

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PMID34268474

DOI10.1093/ehjcr/ytab139

PMCPMC8276621

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