1) Enhance knowledge of normal and abnormal coronary and cardiac anatomy, with an emphasis on differentiating benign from significant variants. 2) Demonstrate the spectrum of nonatherosclerotic congenital and acquired diseases that may affect the coronary arteries. 3) Demonstrate the spectrum of non-atherosclerotic congenital and acquired diseases that may affect the heart.
A variety of non-atherosclerotic conditions are detectable on cardiac CT scans, including diseases of the heart, and disease processes which may affect the coronary arteries, or other vascular structures. Cardiac CT has a number of unique advantages in detecting non-atherosclerotic conditions, including congenital and acquired diseases. The focus of this presentation will be non-atherosclerotic conditions of the coronary arteries and of the heart. Variants of normal and abnormal anatomy of the coronary arteries will be discussed, including tips for identifying when coronary anatomic variants are significant. Acquired, non-atherosclerotic diseases of the coronary arteries will also be discussed. This presentation will also discuss the spectrum of non-atherosclerotic diseases of the heart which may be detected at cardiac CT, including congenital and acquired valvular and cardiac diseases. At the end of this exhibit, the viewer will have a better appreciation for abnormal coronary and cardiac anatomy and the broad spectrum of non-atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases which may be seen at cardiac CT.
Lekht, I,
Peripheral CTA—A How-to. Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL.
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