Five-Year Outcomes After Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (From 110,599 Patients in a Danish Nationwide Register-Based Follow-Up Study).

The long-term cardiovascular risk for patients examined with coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) to rule out coronary heart disease compared with population controls remains unexplored. A nationwide register-based study including first-time CCTA-examined patients between 2007 and 2017 in Denmark alive 180 days post-CCTA was conducted. We evaluated 5-year outcomes of myocardial infarction (MI) or revascularization and all-cause mortality in 3 distinct CCTA-groups: (1) no post-CCTA preventive pharmacotherapy use (cholesterol-lowering drugs, antiplatelets, or anticoagulants); (2) post-CCTA preventive pharmacotherapy use; and (3) revascularization or MI within 180 days post-CCTA.

[Cardiac myxoma--a rare cause of cerebral embolism].

Cardiac myxoma is the most common benign heart tumor. We report a case with multiple brain metastases, presumably due to tumor embolization. It is important to perform transthoracic echocardiography at a very early stage to exclude structural heart disease in patients with signs of multiple brain metastases.

[Outpatient treatment of deep-vein thrombosis].

Introduction: The treatment of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) is increasingly managed in an outpatient setting. This is the first retrospective study of an outpatient treatment program for DVT patients in a Danish hospital.

Materials And Methods: Case records from all DVT patients treated at Frederikshavn Hospital between 1997 and 2003 were studied to analyse patient characteristics and the risk of pulmonary embolism, bleeding and recurrence.

[Deep venous thrombosis--epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment].

The pathogenesis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) involves vascular changes or injury, stasis and alterations in the blood composition. The risk increases with age; however, important risk factors are cancer, surgery, immobilisation and hormone therapy. DVT most often appears in the crural veins.