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Preventing Heart Attacks Using Advanced Cardiac Imaging

Imaging-based primary treatment of heart attacks focuses on using advanced imaging technologies to quickly and accurately assess blocked coronary arteries during an acute cardiac emergency. Techniques such as coronary angiography, cardiac CT, and other imaging tools help doctors identify the exact location and severity of the blockage, allowing for fast and precise decision-making. Early imaging plays a crucial role in confirming a heart attack and guiding immediate intervention. This approach helps improve patient outcomes by enabling timely procedures like primary angioplasty or stent placement to restore blood flow to the heart. Imaging-guided care reduces complications, saves heart muscle, and increases survival rates. In this video, we explain how imaging is used in the early management of heart attacks and why rapid, image-based treatment is critical for saving lives and improving recovery. ______________________________________________________________________________ Apollo Hospitals is the leading multi-specialty hospitals group in India. It is also present in several countries in the Asia-pacific region. Over 8000 doctors provide best in class treatment at the groups 70+ hospitals in 27 cities. It specializes in - Cardiology, Orthopaedics, Spine, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Gastroenterology, Gynaecology, Oncology, Transplants, ICU, Emergency, Preventive Medicine, Robotics, Bariatric Surgery, Nephrology & Urology and Colorectal Surgery. Follow Apollo Hospitals on Social Media for Regular Updates: Facebook -   / theapollohospitals   Twitter -   / hospitalsapollo   Instagram -   / theapollohospitals   Linkedin -   / apollo-hospitals   Namaste. I'm Dr. Vijay Kumar Subban, Senior Interventional Cardiologist at the Apollo Mine Hospitals, Chennai. We'll be talking about imaging-based primary prevention of heart attacks. We all know heart attack is a deadly illness and we all like to prevent that from happening for us. So traditionally, we practice this prevention, that means giving medications for cholesterol and aspirin. based on an approach called risk factor based approach. We use our age, gender, diabetes, melitis, hypertension, smoking, obesity, family history, these type of risk factors for allocating our treatment for prevention of heart attack. However, we come across patients with multiple risk factors. They never experienced heart attack in their lifetime. In contrast, One third of the patients with absolutely normal risk factor profile still end up having heart attack. And to prevent this and not to miss those are high risk for having heart attack, they're currently introduced an approach called imaging based approach to primary prevention. So like what we do for cancer treatment, where we see early breast cancer by mammography or early colon cancer by colonoscopy. We see early cholesterol deposits in the blood vessels of the brain, heart, and the peripheral arteries by using imaging. We use ultrasound imaging for imaging our brain and peripheral blood vessels and cardiac CT for imaging our cardiac blood vessels. By this way, we identify early deposits of cholesterol in these areas. And if there is no deposit, the chance of you having heart attack is very low. In case you have deposits, your risk increases with the amount of deposits you have. So more the deposits, more the risk of heart attack, and you end up taking maximum preventive medications. So by using this approach, the chance of over treating somebody who is at low risk and under treating someone who is at high risk can be totally avoided. And this should be the way to go in the evaluation and treatment of primary prevention of your heart attacks.