Coronary artery calcification on chest computed tomography scan – Anaesthetic implications

The significance of coronary artery calcification noted on noncontrast chest computed tomography (CT) scan is unknown. We report a case where coronary artery calcification on chest CT scan incidentally detected in an asymptomatic patient who was found to have significant coronary artery disease whic...

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Autores principales: Parab, Swapnil Y, Patil, Vijaya P, Shetmahajan, Madhavi, Kanaparthi, Astha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6691644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31462814
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ija.IJA_40_19
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author Parab, Swapnil Y
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description The significance of coronary artery calcification noted on noncontrast chest computed tomography (CT) scan is unknown. We report a case where coronary artery calcification on chest CT scan incidentally detected in an asymptomatic patient who was found to have significant coronary artery disease which resulted in perioperative morbidity.
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spelling pubmed-66916442019-08-28 Coronary artery calcification on chest computed tomography scan – Anaesthetic implications Parab, Swapnil Y Patil, Vijaya P Shetmahajan, Madhavi Kanaparthi, Astha Indian J Anaesth Case Report The significance of coronary artery calcification noted on noncontrast chest computed tomography (CT) scan is unknown. We report a case where coronary artery calcification on chest CT scan incidentally detected in an asymptomatic patient who was found to have significant coronary artery disease which resulted in perioperative morbidity. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6691644/ /pubmed/31462814 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ija.IJA_40_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Coronary artery calcification on chest computed tomography scan – Anaesthetic implications
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title_fullStr Coronary artery calcification on chest computed tomography scan – Anaesthetic implications
title_full_unstemmed Coronary artery calcification on chest computed tomography scan – Anaesthetic implications
title_short Coronary artery calcification on chest computed tomography scan – Anaesthetic implications
title_sort coronary artery calcification on chest computed tomography scan – anaesthetic implications
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6691644/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ija.IJA_40_19
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