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Immediate CCTA with FFR diagnoses traumatic coronary artery dissection and guides successful medical management.
CT coronary angiography with CT-FFR is a viable non-invasive modality for diagnosing and monitoring traumatic coronary artery dissection.
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May support non-invasive CT-FFR for traumatic dissection in select cases; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
A young male presented with chest pain after blunt chest wall trauma. Immediate CT coronary angiography demonstrated a spiral dissection of the right coronary artery. CT fractional flow reserve confirmed modest flow limitation so the patient was treated medically. At follow-up CT the vessel had healed and CT fractional flow reserve had normalised.
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A 2020 study studied this question. Immediate CT coronary angiography with fractional flow reserve diagnosed a traumatic coronary artery dissection and guided successful medical management leading to vessel healing.
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