While only a few cases have been documented in the literature, this particular case demonstrates the importance of the continued work up for etiology of chest pain once more common etiologies like coronary heart disease (CHD) have been excluded, independent of patient age or comorbidities.doi:10.1016/j.ejrnm.2017.08.008Agrawal, Har...
Adoption of point-of-care hs-cTn testing may reduce the time required for diagnostic workup of chest pain, as testing in a central laboratory requires sample transportation, specimen preparation, processing, and reporting of results. Moreover, an hs-cTn–based risk score may be used...
patients are scored according to disease etiology, clinical presentation, and imaging findings. A score of 6 or more requires the patient to undergo immediate pericardial drainage. A lower score indicates that drainage can be postponed for up to 12 to 48 ...
Cardiac CT in the workup for TAVI. Top left corner, multi-planar reformat displaying the annular plane for quantification of the aortic valve annulus and volume rendering image for perpendicular projection for optimal C-arm angulation; upper middle images, multi-planar reformat for assessment of cor...
The heightened awareness about the potentially devastating ramifications of chest pain may drive patients to seek medical attention despite a negative cardiac workup. 2 Furthermore, almost half of the NCCP patients are not convinced by their negative cardiac diagnosis, and reassurance alone has ...
devastating ramifications of chest pain may drive patients to seek medical attention despite a negative cardiac workup. 2 Furthermore, almost half of the NCCP patients are not convinced by their negative cardiac diagnosis, and reassurance alone has proved to be an ungratifying ...
See Workup for more detail. Management In general, advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) guidelines should be followed in all cases of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Immediate chest compression and defibrillation are reportedly the most important interventions ...
Unstable patients with suspected tamponade: Do not delay treatment for extensive diagnostic workup; proceed directly with management of cardiac tamponade. In all other patients, confirm the diagnosis with echocardiography (either TTE, FAST, or focused cardiac ultrasound). Laboratory studies and analysis ...
Anaesthesia for MIMVS Preoperative assessment History, examination, and investigations are reviewed. Preoperative investigations should be tailored to each patient individually but usually include a similar workup to those undergoing sternotomy. These include routine blood tests, ECG, transthoracic echocardiogr...
12 months NO Risk of surgery Low Intermediate High Functional capacity Clinical risk indicators Absent BNP NT-proBNP ≥ 100 ng/l ≥ 300 ng/l < 100 ng/l < 300 ng/l Cardio- logical workup and optimization Troponin SURGERY Cardio- logical workup and optimization Elevation In...