{"id":524,"date":"2011-12-02T19:30:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ptca.org\/voice\/?p=524"},"modified":"2012-10-20T01:24:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T05:24:54","slug":"womens-heart-disease-and-intravascular-ultrasound-ivus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ptca.org\/voice\/2011\/12\/02\/womens-heart-disease-and-intravascular-ultrasound-ivus-524","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Heart Disease and Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Habib Samady of Emory in Atlanta at IVUS console<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve written before about the use of IVUS in stent and angioplasty procedures in women, most recently in October about a study done at NYU Medical Center. My article, “Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Imaging Reveals Hidden Heart Attack Culprit In Women<\/a>“, showed how intravascular imaging could detect a type of coronary disease not seen on angiography.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now a similar tale has been broadcast by CBS affiliate WGCL-TV in Atlanta about how a type of coronary narrowing more typical in women may not be seen on a standard angiogram because it’s evenly distributed along the arterial wall or channel and doesn’t appear as a “spike” or sudden narrowing — yet it may be restricting the flow of blood to the heart just the same. Once again — angiography alone is not enough to accurately diagnose coronary artery disease and guide its treatment.<\/p>\n

Dr. Habib Samady of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia explains more in this story and video clip on the WGCL-TV web site<\/a>, reported by Kara Pesavento. (Emory, by the way, was the nexus for coronary angioplasty in the U.S. — it’s where Andreas Gruentzig moved to from Switzerland 30 years ago and where he taught thousands of doctors how to perform his then controversial new procedure.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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