Signs of a tear in main artery from Mark Villers' heart missed at Good Hope Hospital - in part due to there being not enough radiologists ...

Read more: Much-loved dad dies suddenly at just 42 A CT scan was carried out but medics missed abnormalities which, if investigated, would have revealed he had suffered a tear in his aorta, the ...

CT angiography sensitivity ranged from 75.5–87.3%, while specificity held near 90% across scales. Sensitivity refers to how well a test finds its target, in this case, brain death.

Preoperative evaluation included computed tomography (CT) angiography with axial 3 mm cuts, and proximal infrarenal aortic neck (distance from the lowest renal artery to beginning of aneurysmal ...

A CT angiogram can provide detailed imagery of the blood vessels that go into the kidneys to help diagnose renal artery stenosis. (Photo Credit: ZEPHYR/Science Source) Most of the time, renal ...

Type A aortic dissection complicating an attempt of chronic total occlusion recanalization. (A) Baseline coronary angiography showing the chronic total occlusion of the proximal right coronary artery.

Aortic dissection has long been considered a rare, unpreventable and inevitably fatal disease. However, recent advances now prove otherwise. The patient-led Think Aorta campaign is challenging old ...

4. Malhotra AK, Camacho M, Ivatury RR, Davis IC, Komorowski DJ, Leung DA, et al. Computed tomographic angiography for the diagnosis of blunt carotid/vertebral artery injury: a note of caution. Ann ...

Background Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the brain are commonly treated in multimodality fashion, with endovascular embolization followed by surgical extirpation being one of the most ...

Conventional computed tomographic (CT) scanning is, however, at a disadvantage because of its inability to obtain multiplanar images. The combination of slip ring CT scanning and computerised ...

Introduction Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a relatively rare but much-feared clinical presentation which has a high mortality, particularly if definitive treatment is delayed. A combination of ...

Magnetic resonance angiography–also called a magnetic resonance angiogram or MRA–is a type of MRI that looks specifically at the body’s blood vessels. Unlike a traditional angiogram, which requires ...