2.5.3 CT Imaging of Coronary Vessels Flashcards
What is the leading cause of death in the US?
Heart disease
What is this an image of?
Stress Thallium - Lateral ischemia
What is the conventional method of examining the heart?
Cardiac Catherization
What is one of the main benefits of Coronary CTA?
Non-invasive testing
High negative predictive value - 99%
What is the difference between Myocardial perfusion stress imaging, Cardiac cath, and Coronary CTA? (In regards to their testing)
What are the 3 main arteries in the left circulation of the heart?
Left marginal
Left anterior descending
Left circumflex
The LAD gives rise to?
The diagonal arteries
The left circumflex gives rise to?
The obtuse marginals
What are the main arteries in the right circulation of the heart?
RCA
Posterior Descending
What are the grooves of the heart?
Top Left going counter clockwise
Right atrioventricular
Left atrioventricular
Anterior interventricular
posterior interventricular
What artery runs in the anterior interventricular groove?
LAD
What artery runs in the Posterior (left) AVG?
Left circumflex
What artery runs in the anterior (rt) AVG?
RCA
What artery runs in the PIVG?
Posterior Descending Artery
What is dominance?
Dominance is which side give off the PDA
Right dominant - the PDA would come off the right coronary artery
What are the two leading causes of non-CAD SCD?
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Major coronary artery anomalies
What is this an image of?
Coronary artery anomaly where RCA is in between the Aortic and Pulmonic valves
What is the progression of CAD?
Progressive disease
What is this arrow pointing to in this image?
Plaque in a CTA image
What are the 3 leading causes of chest pain death?
CAD
PE
Aortic Dissection
What is this an image of?
PE on CT scan
What are the white spots on this image?
Plaque build ups
What is this an image of?
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
What is this an image of?
LAD artery
What is this an image of?
Aortic Valve
