Categorical Course Series on Chest and Cardiac Imaging at PGI

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Chandigarh 21^st August:- The first three day categorical course series on Chest and Cardiac Imaging was inaugurated today at PGI, Chandigarh by the sub-dean of the Institute, Prof. Subash Varma. This course is being organized by the department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, PGI, Chandigarh in collaboration with the American College of Radiology (ACR) and American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP). Prof. N. Khandelwal, Head department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging is the course director and Dr. Akshay Kumar Saxena and Dr. Kushaljit Singh Sodhi are the course co-directors from PGI.

Speaking on the occasion Prof. N. Khandelwal said that education and research should transcend all borders and should be accessible and achievable by one and all irrespective of nationality.  With this concept in mind a joint course in radiological education is being organized which will primarily focus on teaching radiology to the students and fellows. Residents and fellows will be encouraged to analyze the pathology of different disease processes and then correlate it with the imaging findings.

Prof. Sanjiv Sharma, Head, Department of Cardiac Radiology, AIIMS, New Delhi discussed in detail the various imaging modalities for diagnosing pulmonary embolism, that is, blockage of the major vasculature in the chest. The patient presents with sudden onset of shortness of breath and the disease condition should be diagnosed early as it has a high fatality rate. He stressed the need of using the advanced CT scan imaging for diagnosing pulmonary embolism.

Dr Ann Frazier, Chief, Cardiovascular Imaging, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA elaborated on pulmonary artery hypertension. This is a disease in which there is increase in the blood pressure of the vessels of the lungs. She discussed the details of the pathophysiologic processes which cause such an abnormality. She stressed on correlating the imaging findings of this disease with the findings seen under the microscope.

Dr. Kligerman, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore spoke about the coronary artery anatomy and their congenital anomalies