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Introduction to Cardiac CT in Ischemic Heart Disease in the Setting of Known Coronary Artery Disease

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Greetings and welcome to cardiac CT

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and ischemic heart disease in the setting

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of known coronary artery disease.

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I'm Brian Gura,

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and I'm a cardiovascular radiologist at Massachusetts

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General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Uh, I am currently the academic chief

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of cardiovascular imaging, as well

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as an associate chair in operations and analytics.

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Um, the course, uh, we'll go through today, uh,

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we'll focus on, uh, the philosophy of our training program,

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which is really case-based review.

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But we'll start with a brief didactic lecture

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where we'll touch on some concepts

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and then we'll apply it repeatedly through all the number

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of, of cases that we'll go through with lots

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of great, rich examples.

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Um, we hope that this allows you to

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both anchor on those concepts

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and then apply them the,

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just the way you will do in the reading room.

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And, um, I think you'll find that ischemic heart disease,

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as you probably know, is very common, one

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of the most common, uh, causes of morbidity

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and mortality in the Western world.

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But you also see it's very straightforward.

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So with this framework, we'll be able to work

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through even some very complex cases.

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Um, if you have anything, uh, like my work environment,

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you'll see that cardiac CT is being used more and more.

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And, uh, the, the cases are really everywhere you look even

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outside of cardiac ct.

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Um, but, uh, by using the, uh, the, the concepts, I think

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what seems like a very, uh,

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complex topic is actually extremely straightforward.

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Uh, it's just the manifestations can

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be, uh, pretty exciting.

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Uh, so, uh, without further ado, let's get started

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and go through some concepts.

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Faculty

Brian Ghoshhajra, MD, MBA, MSCCT

Academic Chief, Cardiovascular Imaging and Associate Chair, Operations Analytics

Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Tags

Vascular

Coronary arteries

Cardiac

CT

Angiography