MRS

01:27 Aug 19, 2018 

Are you going to close this question?

11:26 Mar 21, 2018 

My feeling as well. "PCI +MRS su IVA media" would mean "minimal invasive + invasive myocardial revascularization of LAD middle segment", and that is not very likely, unless PCI and MRS refer to separate interventions at different time points.

20:33 Mar 19, 2018 

There are two types of myocardial revascularization: transmyocardial revascularization (TMR) and the less invasive percutaneous myocardial revascularization (PMR). --- So I guess MRS as myocardial revascularization surgery is possible, but somehow doesn't seem right to me...

20:14 Mar 19, 2018 

PCI is catheter intervention, and myocardial revascularization surgery is invasive surgery including extracorporeal circulation. Having multiple stents placed in the LAD and diagonal branch(es) is unlikely to be combined with surgery (= bypass) on the same artery. <br />The patient might have received those stents (PCI) on a previous occasion, and underwent bypass surgery on a later occasion if stenting failed to do the job. Whether or not this is so cannot be inferred from the two lines quoted in the query, but there may be hints in the remainder of the report.

18:57 Mar 19, 2018 

I was looking for examples of MRS in a cardiology context after posting the answer below, and see that another possibility, with far more online examples is "myocardial revascularization surgery." Anne ... does it make sense to say that myocardial revascularization surgery was performed on the middle segment of the LAD? If so, this is a much more likely solution.

18:37 Mar 19, 2018 

OK, Anne, you've talked me into it. I'll post the answer just so we can complete the question (points aren't that important to me, Rita).

18:16 Mar 19, 2018 

This for you, Joseph, you are the IT>EN guy :-)

08:16 Mar 19, 2018 

Anne and Joseph, I think you might be geniuses! It now definitely makes sense for MRS to be a medication-releasing (drug-eluting) stent, as the Italian text is peppered with English words/terms throughout. Nothing else that could be abbreviated to MRS makes any sense there. Thank you! If you add this as an answer option, I can give you points.

22:55 Mar 18, 2018 

Hi Anne! I had also thought that MRS might stand for "medication-releasing stent" and then kept myself from posting this guess because I thought NO, it can't be, they just said "stent medicato" in the same sentence! But ... it's a possibility (especially now that you're suggesting it).

22:47 Mar 18, 2018 

The first line says, "stent medicati ... su IVA", and the second line says, "MRS su IVA media". Could it be that "stent medicati" and "MRS" are the same thing, i.e., they use an (in-house) acronym of "medication releasing stent" (or whatever similar)?

22:19 Mar 18, 2018 

interventri- colare anteriore (IVA)

22:14 Mar 18, 2018 

Yes, I agree, MRS = magnetic resonance spectroscopy

21:45 Mar 18, 2018 

Also, no spectroscopy is mentioned anywhere else in the very detailed document.

21:43 Mar 18, 2018 

I agree with Joseph. IVA media is middle section of the LAD artery here.

21:39 Mar 18, 2018 

"magnetic resonance spectroscopy" in or to the middle segment of the LAD coronary artery does not seem highly likely to me.

In addition: the acronym is IVA, not VA ... we can't choose which letters to read or leave out. And ... also ... "IVA media" was answered in her previous question.

21:35 Mar 18, 2018 

I am pretty sure that it is MRS—magnetic resonance spectroscopy with media being media of contrast VA might be AV = advanced Viewing

21:09 Mar 18, 2018 

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/circulationaha/89/4/1709... - I mean, I haven't studied the subject in detail but wondered if it's relevant.

20:51 Mar 18, 2018 

No, this is a coronary angiography/stenting procedure, nothing to do with brain scans.

20:47 Mar 18, 2018 

Might it be magnetic resonance spectroscopy? Sorry if way out.