Cardiac CT: A personal clinical perspective

Future Perspective of Cardiac CT

A Perspective on Cardiac CT Imaging Technique

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. Cardiovascular imaging technique is a key for cardiovascular disease diagnosis and treatment. In coronary imaging, the cardiac CT is of high spatial and temporal resolution. Compared with other medical imaging modality, the cardiac CT has a unique advantage in coronary stenosis detection, plaque assessment and st...

Aborted sudden cardiac death: a clinical perspective.

Sudden cardiac death in the community remains a major public health problem. The purpose of this article is to outline the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and immediate treatment of the cardiac arrest victim. The subsequent in-hospital diagnostic evaluation and management will then be discussed with an emphasis on the role of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. A systematic and evidence ...

Cardiac cell repair therapy: a clinical perspective.

From bone marrow transplants 5 decades ago to the most recent stem cell-derived organ transplants, regenerative medicine is increasingly recognized as an emerging core component of modern practice. In cardiovascular medicine, innovation in stem cell biology has created curative solutions for the treatment of both ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy. Multiple cell-based platforms have been d...

Incompleteness: A Personal Perspective

After proving the completeness of the system of predicate logic in his doctoral dissertation (1929), Gödel has continued the investigation of the completeness problem for more comprehensive formal systems, especially for systems encompassing all known methods of mathematical proof. In 1931 (see [28, 25]) Gödel proved his famous (first) incompleteness theorem, which in modern terms reads: Every ...