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Editorial
. 2025 Aug;110(8):1017-1022.
doi: 10.1113/EP092560. Epub 2025 Feb 13.

The Holy Grail of cardiology?

Richard Godfrey  1
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Editorial

The Holy Grail of cardiology?

Richard Godfrey. Exp Physiol. 2025 Aug.
No abstract available

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None declared.

Figures

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Three stages after defibrillation between total lack of awareness and full sentience/recovery of consciousness (Adapted from Lane and Godfrey, 2010).
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
A hospital ‘Cath Lab’. At least two clinicians insert a catheter via the femoral artery and feed the catheter up into the right coronary artery, where contrast medium (dye) is injected to highlight the line of the vessel and any obstruction.
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
Left‐hand image shows a blockage in the right coronary artery resulting in ischaemia in a downstream locus of the left ventricle. Right‐hand image shows that the right coronary artery is still patent 48 h following aspiration.
FIGURE 4
FIGURE 4
Cardiac functional MRI, with multiple images from different angles and with arrows pointing to scarring amounting to 16.3% of the left ventricle.
FIGURE 5
FIGURE 5
CT pulmonary angiography (transaxial view), demonstrating bilateral pulmonary emboli (blood clots, seen here as white dots following the lines of the pulmonary arteries) in the vasculature of both lungs and a misshapen heart attributable to raised pulmonary artery pressure causing ‘back pressure’. The grey ‘smudge’ to the right of the heart (i.e. to the left as shown in the image, because this transaxial slice is viewed from the inferior position by convention) is the top of the right hemidiaphragm. At the top of the image are the pectoral muscles. The large white body near the bottom of the image is a thoracic vertebra.
FIGURE 6
FIGURE 6
Three still images, each taken from functional cardiac MRI (i.e. cine images). Data collected were Study 1, November 2008; Study 2, May 2011; and Study 3, March 2012.
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