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Presentations
Keep up to date with state of the art cardiac investigation and care. Heart Vision staff regularly give presentations and review interesting cases sharing knowledge with their peers. These talks and cases can be viewed in this Presentations section. Interesting...
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Radiation Dose delivered in CTCA
In the early days of performing CT scans of the coronary arteries, the radiation doses delivered were high. This was because scans were performed at full power throughout the cardiac cycle with overlapped spiral technique. This was a reflection...
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Southern Cross Members
Southern Cross Members having a CT Coronary Angiogram The Heart Centre @ St George's has an Affiliated Provider agreement with Southern Cross Healthcare patients for CT Coronary Angiograms. Recently Southern Cross has tightened their clinical guidelines for the procedure. I have...
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5yr CVD Risk Chart - Men
5yr Cardiovascular Disease Risk Charts (2005)
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5yr CVD Risk Chart - Women
5yr Cardiovascular Disease Risk Charts (2005)
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Patient Demographics
Audit One From 16/02/07 to 20/06/08 306 CTCA's were performed at St George's Radiology. There were an additional 42 Cardiac Catheterisations to correlate the CT with, and in case of a discrepancy between results, the cardiac catheterisation was considered the...
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Review CT Reports
69% of the patients were found to have coronary artery disease, including calcification, atheroma, plaque burden and stenosis. This was independent of stenocclusive assessment. Of the 932 patients in the study, we triaged each patient as normal, mild, mild-moderate, severe...
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Results
*Correlation of coronary catheter versus CTCA, in evaluation of stenosis grading. * There were 932 CTCAs performed and of those 82 also had Catheterisation which was able to be correlated with their CTCA reports. Audit Results
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