CCTA isn’t just for diagnosis, it’s a PCI playbook. Excellent new review details how #CCTA offers shorter cases, less contrast/radiation, fewer geographic misses, better stent sizing, and a reproducible workflow you can teach.

❗ Coronary calcium scoring is a great way to risk stratify patients for the #1 cause of death, but many insurance plans still don't cover this test. 👏 Here's a new expert statement in @JACCJournals that calls on payers to provide coverage. The time is now for progress. buff.ly/UCWJZG5

🤔 Young woman presents with chest pain. Diagnosis? 🚀 Incredible #CardiacCT imaging @NorthwellHealth #cardioSky

💥 New review from @TheLancet on Dx of #CAD. 👉 Bottom line: The field continues to shift toward plaque-centric #CCTA, with functional tests layered on for ischemia, reflecting a more comprehensive approach to chronic CAD. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @drmarthagulati.bsky.social #CardioSky

🔎 Incredible #CT images of #LVAD complications - just out in @JACCJournals. 👏 Thanks to the team at @inselgruppe.bsky.social for putting this together! www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... #cardiosky

🔥 Hot off the press! 2025 CV Imaging Training Statement 🛣️ New "Advanced Imager" pathway with Level II-like competence in CT, MR, Echo, and Nuc 🚀 Nice emphasis on cross-modality integration for CAD, sarcoid, amyloid, HCM pericardium, masses, structural, and ACHD Link below👇

What is the unifying diagnosis?🫀 Incredible cardiac imaging happening @NorthwellHealth 🚀 #cardioSky @SCMRorg SSFP, LGE, T1, T2

🚨 New AHA statement on NOCA from @CardioMDPhD @lesleejshaw and others. 👉 AI plaque analysis improves risk discrimination and changes downstream management. 🚀 @NorthwellHealth will be studying this as we prepare to roll out Plaque Analysis! #CardioSky www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

🚀 New #EACVI consensus statement on multimodality imaging for #HCM from @s_e_petersen @cardim_nuno. #Echo, #CMR, #CCT, and #PET each add unique value across diagnosis, symptoms, prognosis, screening, and treatment monitoring. Key points👇

💥 Myocardial Blood Flow (#MBF) isn't just a #PET thing anymore. #CCT and #CMR are in the game. 🚦 Angina isn't always explained by epicardial stenoses. Quantification of MBF can detect other causes (#ANOCA), like microvascular disease, HCM, or transplant vasculopathy.

We’re doing CT before most TAVRs, but we’re only cashing in on the “planning” part. This review argues we should be squeezing the rest of the dataset for prognosis and longitudinal care. www.journalofcardiovascularct.com/article/S193... What else is sitting on those scans? 👇

💥 Masterful review of the literature on CT-FFR in @journalCCT www.journalofcardiovascularct.com/article/S193... #CCTA + #CTFFR = anatomy + physiology in one stop 🚀 Growing evidence to look at the translesional ΔFFR, not just the distal FFR value 🔺 @PRodriguezMD #cardioSky #CAD #SCCT

🤔 Thought-provoking piece in @CircAHA from Kole & Joshi 🫀 A growing group of patients with subclinical atherosclerosis falls in between traditional "primary" and "secondary" prevention. I've heard of "prevention 1.5" or "plaque-informed prevention." How about the following classification system?👇

💥 Just out in #JACC CVI: State-of-the-Art on Photon-Counting CT 👇 Why this technology is a game-changer: ☢️ Better for patients: ⬇️ radiation and ⬇️ contrast 😅 Better for readers: spatial rez of 0.1mm + ⬇️ blooming = stents and calcified plaques are clearer than ever before

✨ Beautiful #CMR pictures. Young patient with new chest pain. SSFP, T2W, and LGE. #NorthwellHealth #cardiosky

🪦 Ischemic heart disease remains the #1 cause of death worldwide 💥 That's 8.9M premature deaths or 136M years of life lost in 2023 alone 💊 We need a better strategy to detect and prevent ischemic heart disease 👏 Thanks to GBD for another incredible report: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #CCTA

💥 As coronary CTA volumes increase, we must keep radiation exposures as low as reasonably achievable. ☢️ AHA/ACC/SCCT recommend a goal of median CCTA dose ≤4 mSv, which has been achieved in multicenter trials without compromising quality.

💥 Photon-counting detector CT offers good diagnostic accuracy for detecting ISR, overcoming artifacts that have plagued prior generations of scanners. 🔬 In a blinded study of 283 stented lesions, PCD-CT, as compared to cath, demonstrated NPV of 96.4% and accuracy of 88.9% for ISR ≥50%.

🧲 #CMR can identify cardiac allograft vasculopathy effectively and non-invasively. 🔬 In this study of 110 patients s/p heart transplant, quant myocardial perfusion reserve <2.2 had NPV 100% and AUC 0.88 for significant CAV, as compared to cath. doi.org/10.1093/ehjc... @SCMR @EHJ #CardioSky

💫 #CMR is useful for predicting SCD in NICM. 📊 DERIVATE 2.0 provides better risk classification, incorporating gender, LVEF, and amount/location of #LGE. 👉 Let's look beyond LVEF alone to determine which NICM patients get ICD. Full text: doi.org/10.1093/ehjc... #CMR @SCMR #cardiosky

Redefining the risk of major arrhythmic events in non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy: insights from the DERIVATE-NICM study

AbstractAims. Selection of the patients for implantable cardioverter defibrillator primary prevention therapy in non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) needs

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🚨 Preventing first heart attacks may need a rethink. 🔬 In this massive study of 4.6 million people with their first heart attack: --18% had no standard modifiable risk factors --51% had no warning symptoms beforehand --63% weren't on preventive meds (only 22% on statin)

💥 The SCOT-HEART 2 trail could transform how we identify those at risk of heart attacks. 🔬 Trial randomizes asymptomatic patients ages 40-70 with ≥1 risk factors to either #CoronaryCTA or standard care, with appropriate therapies, looking for primary outcome of heart attack.

Superb article summarizing the knowns and unknowns of broken heart syndrome (Takotsubo syndrome).💔 Yes, emotions can stun the heart. A fascinating tale of mind–heart biology. Full text here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @elmir1omerovic #cardiotwitter

🚨Late-presenting ostial LAD STEMI, imaged 7-days later with #CMR. Here's the #LGE. ❓Would you call thrombus? Microvascular obstruction? Intramyocardial hemorrhage? Or a combination of these? @NorthwellHealth @LenoxHill #cardiotwitter

❓As Plaque Analysis roles out nationwide for #CCTA, providers are asking "How will this change clinical management?" ✔️The DECIDE registry provides one framework: Total Plaque Volume determines level of therapy. 🔬More research is needed to show impact on hard outcomes. #cardiotwitter @NorthwellHealth

This #CMR shows anteroapical intramyocardial enhancement. Taking the image as a whole, what's one potential explanation? #cardiotwitter #CardiacImaging

Important multicenter study in #EHJ #CMR outperforms societal recs for ICD placement in cardiac sarcoidosis 📈AUC=0.86 for 5-yr risk of fatal/life-threatening arrhythmias ⚡Highest risk = abnl LVEF + LGE that is multifocal, septal, subepicardial, or involves RV freewall buff.ly/Nc2upbU #cardiotwitter

Nice review in #EHJ on LGE and SCD by @DrMarchlinski et al. buff.ly/GeU589P 🫀Good reminder that in CAD: LGE predicts SCD better than LVEF; absence of LGE has a high NPV for SCD 🔭Looking ahead, digital twins made from CMR data undergo virtual inductions to uncover arrhythmia risk #cardiotwitter