title: [Use of 64-slice tomodensitometry after cardiac arrest].
abstract: Acute coronary occlusion is the leading cause of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, so patients are usually referred for immediate coronary angiography and angioplasty. We report here the observation of such a patient who previously underwent a coronary artery bypass intervention and who had a difficult arterial access. Moreover, the nature of the grafts was unknown (saphenous and/or mammary arteries). Multi-slice cardiac tomo-densitometry was performed rather than a conventional coronary angiography and it allowed the analysis of native arteries and grafts. There was no stenosis and angioplasty was unnecessary.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie, centre hospitalier sud-francilien, Corbeil-Essonnes cedex, France. marcel.toussaint@ch-sud-francilien.fr
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Toussaint
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Peraton
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Choukroun
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gonin
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Amrar-Vennier
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Goube
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D058687:Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014654:Vascular Patency