Authors
Priyanka Singhal, Amardeep Ghosh Dastidar, Jonathan C Rodrigues, Nauman Ahmed, Alberto Palazzuoli, Mandie Townsend, Angus Nightingale, Tom Johnson, Julian Strange, Andreas Baumbach, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci
Publication date
2015/6/1
Source
Heart
Volume
101
Issue
Suppl 4
Pages
A73-A74
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
Description
Background
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Up to 15% of ACS patients are left with a diagnostic dilemma when no significant coronary obstruction is identified. In these patients, CMR can identify different underlying diagnoses including: myocarditis, myocardial infarction (MI) with spontaneous recanalisation/embolus or Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy. However, there are discrepancies in the literature on the diagnostic pick-up rate by CMR and patients are not consistently scanned in the same time window.
Aim
To evaluate the diagnostic role of performing CMR “early” (< 2 weeks from presentation) versus “late” (>2 weeks from presentation) in patients with troponin positive ACS and unobstructed coronaries.
Methods
In this retrospective observational study, performed at a large cardiothoracic tertiary centre in the South-West of England, data were collected on …
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