Cardiac CT - Marc Dewey

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Biographie:
Marc Dewey has published more than 130 papers on noninvasive cardiac imaging. Among them are landmark papers published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal and the New England Journal of Medicine. He is a reviewer for over 20 journals among them the Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, and The Lancet and received the highest scientific awards of the German RÖntgen Society - the Wilhelm-Conrad-RÖntgen-Preis and the RÖntgen-Ring. Dr. Dewey's team is well known for the cardiac imaging courses and he is a renowned speaker on cardiac imaging. Experts for the scanners of all four vendors such as Dr. Katharina Anders, Dr. Oliver Klass, Dr. Masahiro Jinzaki, and Dr. Elke Zimmermann contributed to the corresponding chapters of Cardiac CT.

Sommaire:
Introduction.- Technical and Personnel Requirements.- Anatomy.- Cardiac CT in Clinical Practice.- Clinical Indications.- Patient Preparation.- Physics Background and Radiation Exposure.- Examination and Reconstruction.- Examinations on Different CT Scanners.- Reading and Reporting.- Coronary Artery Calcium.- Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts.- Coronary Artery Stents.- Coronary Artery Plaques.- Cardiac Function.- Cardiac Valves.- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Interventions.- Pulmonic Valve Implantation, Mitral Valve Repair, and Left Atrial Appendage Closure.- Myocardial Perfusion and Fractional Flow Reserve.- Hybrid Imaging.- Electrophysiology Interventions.- Coronary Artery Anomalies.- Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease.- Typical Clinical Examples.- Results of Clinical Studies.- Outlook.