Ct Cardiac Imaging for Evaluation and Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease

Faruk Erzengin; Evren Bursuk

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Ct Cardiac Imaging for Evaluation and Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease

Faruk Erzengin, Evren Bursuk

Published in American Journal of Internal Medicine (Volume 3, Issue 4)

Received: 30 May 2015 Accepted: 22 June 2015 Published: 4 July 2015

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Abstract

The formation of atherosclerotic and calcified plaques begins and develops not only below the endothelium (intimae), but also in the adventitia. Multislice Computed Tomography (MSCT= Cardiac CT) is a very important tool for the diagnosis and treatment of the atherosclerotic calcification in the coronary arteries. Due to rapid improvement in technology, MSCT techniques have also progressed quickly, leading to the development of the 640 slice MSCT. Following the development of this advanced non-invasive technology (640 slice), came up from stage 4C than to the 1A level. Compared to older technologies (e.g. 64, 128 and 320 slice MSCT), the 640 slice MSCT provides various advantages such as higher lateral resolution, lower radiation, and the ability to obtain results more rapidly and accurately. We also introduce a special four cases diagnosed by MSCT, two of them silent ischemia, one of them acute asymptomatic myocardial infarction, and the last one angina pectoris with myocardial bridge(respectively, a 88 year old man, 62 year old man, 66 year old man and 53 year old woman). It was observed that a new innovative combined drug (polypill) is able to prevent the formation of atherosclerotic and calcified plaque of arteries, and to regress pre-existing ones.

Published in	American Journal of Internal Medicine (Volume 3, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajim.20150304.14
Page(s)	165-179
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2015. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Adventitial atherosclerotic calcifications, Formation of Atherosclerosis on the Adventitia, MSCT, Innovative Treatment for Atherosclerosis, Erzengin’s Polypill

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Faruk Erzengin, Evren Bursuk. (2015). Ct Cardiac Imaging for Evaluation and Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease. American Journal of Internal Medicine, 3(4), 165-179. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajim.20150304.14

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Faruk Erzengin

Department of Cardiology, Previous Dean, University of Istanbul, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
Evren Bursuk

Program of Biomedical Technologies, University of Istanbul, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey

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