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Multimodality cardiac imaging of a patient with syncope

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  1. Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, 100 Woods Road, Valhalla, NY, 10595, USA

    Dhaval Kolte MD, PhD & Sahil Khera MD

  2. Division of Cardiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

    Kedar Sankholkar MD, MS & Diwakar Jain MD, FACC, FRCP, FASNC

  3. Department of Radiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

    Amar B. Shah MD

  4. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

    Rocco J. Lafaro MD

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Video 1: Echocardiogram in long axis view showing an apical aneurysm and severely impaired global left ventricular ejection fraction. (AVI 542 kb)

Video 2: Raw rotating stress and rest myocardial perfusion images in black and white. (AVI 5696 kb)

Video 3: Raw rotating stress and rest myocardial perfusion images in thermal color scales. (AVI 6368 kb)

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Video 4: Gated myocardial SPECT images in representative short axis and vertical and horizontal long axes, showing an enlarged left ventricle with a dyskinetic left ventricular apex. The global LVEF was severely impaired at 23%. (AVI 556 kb)

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Video 5: Left coronary angiography showing heavily calcified left main and proximal left anterior descending and left circumflex coronary arteries and a completely occluded mid left anterior descending coronary artery and high grade narrowing of the first and second obtuse marginal branches of the left circumflex coronary artery. (AVI 329 kb)

Video 6: Right coronary angiography with multiple low grade plaques. (AVI 533 kb)

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Video 7: Left ventriculography showing a large calcified apical aneurysm with a large area of dyskinesia involving the apex and apical part of the left ventricle. (AVI 577 kb)

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Kolte, D., Sankholkar, K., Khera, S. et al. Multimodality cardiac imaging of a patient with syncope. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 21, 1029–1034 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-014-9880-x

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