Coronary artery tortuosity: Difference between revisions
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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Coronary tortuosity (CT) is a common finding in coronary angiography settings | Coronary tortuosity (CT) is a common finding in coronary angiography settings. The importance of CT comes from the possibility of reducing the coronary blood supply, through the reduced coronary perfusion pressure, as a result to this kinking and tortuosity, distal to the tortuous point of the coronary artery, which may leading to ischemia.<ref name="pmid17612682">{{cite journal| author=Zegers ES, Meursing BT, Zegers EB, Oude Ophuis AJ| title=Coronary tortuosity: a long and winding road. | journal=Neth Heart J | year= 2007 | volume= 15 | issue= 5 | pages= 191-5 | pmid=17612682 | doi= | pmc=PMC1877966 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17612682 }} </ref> | ||
==Definition== | ==Definition== | ||
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Coronary Angiography | |
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General Principles | |
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Anatomy & Projection Angles | |
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Normal Anatomy | |
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Anatomic Variants | |
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Projection Angles | |
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Epicardial Flow & Myocardial Perfusion | |
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Epicardial Flow | |
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Myocardial Perfusion | |
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Lesion Complexity | |
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ACC/AHA Lesion-Specific Classification of the Primary Target Stenosis | |
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Lesion Morphology | |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Vanessa Cherniauskas, M.D. [2], Mohamed Moubarak, M.D. [3]
Synonyms and keywords: Serpentine coronary artery
Overview
Coronary tortuosity (CT) is a common finding in coronary angiography settings. The importance of CT comes from the possibility of reducing the coronary blood supply, through the reduced coronary perfusion pressure, as a result to this kinking and tortuosity, distal to the tortuous point of the coronary artery, which may leading to ischemia.[1]