Incidental Cardiovascular Findings on Chest CT

Dr. René E. Kanza, MD, PhD, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Sherbrooke University, and a Staff radiologist at Chicoutimi Hospital, Quebec, Canada. He also serves as Co-Director of the Cardiac MRI section and as Director of radiology teaching and clerkship at Chicoutimi Hospital. Dr. Kanza is a board-certified radiologist with fellowship training in Cardiac CT and MRI. He earned his PhD from the Department of Radiology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, an internationally recognized leader in cardiac imaging and analysis, under the guidance of Professor Teruhito Mochizuki, a pioneer in advanced cardiac imaging. His research focuses on the development and validation of advanced medical imaging techniques or tools for the early and accurate diagnosis of cardiac and chest diseases, as well as in reporting imaging features of rare or unknown diseases. Dr René Kanza is the lead author of “Segmental lung Torsion,” the first world description and report of spontaneous segmental lung torsion diagnosed by CT, published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging, a prestigious journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

• Introduction and Overview.- Normal Cardiac Anatomy on Routine Non-Gated Chest Ct, Systematic Approach, and Images Analysis.- Pericardial and Epicardial Bnormalities.- Coronary Arteries, Aorta/Pulmonary Arteries and Breast Arteries.- Myocardium and Heart Chambers.- Valvular Abnormalities.- Congenital Heart Diseases and Shunts.- Cardiac and Pericardial Masses.- Postoperative Cardiac Findings and Cardiac Devices.- Cardiac Trauma.