This MOOC will begin with a course on cardiac anatomy and common cardiac CT examinations (e.g calcium score, CT coronary angiogram, pulmonary vein CT and TAVI). You will also learn basics on contrasts agents. WEEK 2: Role, Analysis & Reporting of Cardiac CT ...
Cardiac MRI and CT: differentiation of normal ostium and intraseptal course from slit-like ostium and interarterial course in anomalous left coronary artery in children. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2015;204:W104-9.Brothers JA, Whitehead KK, Keller MS (2015) Cardiac MRI and CT: differentiation of ...
The study was approved by the Hospital’s Human Subject’s Institutional Review Board (Mass General Brigham IRB). The requirement for patient consent was waived by the IRB, and patient consent was not obtained. RNA extraction Approximately 2 g of tissue was placed into a 50 mL conical ...
Vice-President of the Board of Directors First Department of Cardiology and Angiology (Vascular Medicine) Education: Postgraduate internship in the Upper Silesian Medical Center in Katowice Invasive cardiology training course in the University Hospital in Worms, Germany Residency program in interventional c...
We, therefore, examined the association of blood biomarkers of subclinical cardiac diseases, NT-proBNP, and hs-cTnT and clinically manifest cardiac diseases (atrial fibrillation, ischemic heart disease, and congestive heart failure) with CMIs graded on 3-T MRI in a memory clinic population. ...
14 The University of Connecticut Health institutional review board (IRB) reviewed the study to help ensure that the rights and welfare of the research participants were protected and that the research study was carried out in an ethical manner. The trial protocol received an exempt de...
We evaluated the clinical utility of early postoperative cardiac computed tomography (CT) for evaluating left ventricular (LV) function and predicting prognosis in patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Of the 205 patients who underwent CABG from March 2011 to December 2014...
The study protocol complied with the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Stockholm. The main group of patients studied were those with a first hs-cTnT level of <5 ng/l (undetectable) measured in the ED, combined with no ST-...
Relative mRNA expression was determined by the ΔΔ-Ct method normalized to the ribosomal RNA (18S) level. The following oligonucleotide primers were used: NPPA, sense 5’-ATGGGCTCCTTCTCCATCAC-3’ and antisense 5′-ATCTTCGGTACCGGAAGCTG-3′; NPPB, sense 5′-AAGTCCTAGCCAGTCTCCAGA-3′ and...
The study protocol was approved by the Domain Specific Review Board of the National Health Group (Singapore) and written informed consent were obtained from the mother. All research was performed in accordance with relevant guidelines/regulations. No image pre-processing was done with this data set...