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Findings from Chiba University advance knowledge in cardiology

Published in Cardiovascular Week, July 5th, 2010

Fresh data on cardiology are presented in the report 'New classification of aortic dissection during the cardiac cycle as pulsating type and static type evaluated by electrocardiogram-gated multislice CT.' According to recent research from Chiba, Japan, "In some four-dimensional images acquired by electrocardiogram (ECG)-gated multislice computed tomography (MSCT) of thoracic aortic dissection (AD), true lumen (TL) gets larger (pulsating-type), whereas in others, TL and false lumen (FL) do not change (static-type) in a cardiac cycle. We have characterized these types."

"Twenty subjects (10 with a double-barrel type thoracic descending AD and 10-controls) were enrolled....

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