Elsie Nguyen
Dr. Elsie Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Toronto. She is also Vice Chair on Support, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, Cardiothoracic Division Lead and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for Medical Imaging.
Dr. Nguyen is the Director of Cardiac Imaging at Women’s College Hospital where she started the Cardiac MR and CT Imaging Program. She is passionate about education and has won numerous teaching awards for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Her research interests include microcoil lung nodule localization techniques; cardiac computed tomography optimization techniques and MR imaging of iron overload and other non-ischemic cardiomyopathies.
Dr. Nguyen has photographic memory.
- Correlation Between Breast Arterial Calcifications and Higher Cardiovascular Risk: Awareness and Attitudes Amongst Canadian Radiologists Who Report Mammography
Background: Breast arterial calcification (BAC) on mammography correlates with increased cardiovascular risk. Reporting BAC is not standard practice. […]
- Cardiac Investigation Trends Among Primary Care Physicians: A Paradigm Shift
CONCLUSION: Utilization of coronary CTA as the first-line test for stable chest pain increased following our education sessions targeting PCPs. […]
- Cardiac Link: a retrospective cohort study evaluating a clinical pathway for expedited cardiology referral
BACKGROUND: Outpatients presenting with chest pain often face long wait times for cardiology consultation and subsequent investigation for […]
- Clinical Characteristics and Prognostic Importance of Left Ventricular Apical Aneurysms in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
CONCLUSIONS: Increasing aneurysm size confers poorer prognosis. Aneurysm size ≥2 cm should alert potential consideration for prophylactic […]
- Canadian Association of Radiologists/Canadian Association for Interventional Radiology/Canadian Society of Thoracic Radiology Guidelines on Thoracic Interventions
Thoracic interventions are frequently performed by radiologists, but guidelines on appropriateness criteria and technical considerations to ensure […]
- Visual Ordinal Scoring of Coronary Artery Calcium on Contrast-Enhanced and Noncontrast Chest CT: A Retrospective Study of Diagnostic Performance and Prognostic Utility
BACKGROUND. Current guidelines recommend visual evaluation of coronary artery calcium (CAC) on all nongated noncontrast chest CT examinations. […]
- Statin Use for Primary Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Is Low in Inflammatory Arthritis
CONCLUSIONS: Statin therapy is suboptimal in IA despite a significant number of patients meeting indication based on lipoprotein thresholds or CAC […]
- Management of Patients With Single-Ventricle Physiology Across the Lifespan: Contributions From Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography Imaging
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and cardiac computed tomography (CCT) are robust cross-sectional imaging modalities that are increasingly […]
- Right Ventricular Mass 12 Years after Osteosarcoma: Multimodality Imaging with Pathologic Correlation
The authors report a 27-year-old woman with a remote left femoral osteosarcoma and amputation above the left knee who presented with a large right […]
- Diagnostic performance of chest radiography measurements for the assessment of cardiac chamber enlargement
BACKGROUND: The cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) is commonly assessed on chest radiography for detection of cardiac chamber enlargement, but the […]
- Ascending aortic aneurysm haemodynamics are associated with aortic wall biomechanical properties
CONCLUSIONS: Shear forces at the wall of ATAAs are associated with local degradation of arterial wall viscoelastic hysteresis (ΔUL) and delamination […]
- Multiple Systemic Lesions in a Middle-aged Woman With a History of Lymphoma
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- Left Ventricular Apical Aneurysms in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Equivalent Detection by Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Contrast Echocardiography
CONCLUSIONS: Contrast echocardiography has high sensitivity for detecting LV apical aneurysms and should be used routinely in the evaluation and risk […]
- 2021 Update on Safety of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Joint Statement From Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance/Canadian Heart Rhythm Society
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is often considered the gold-standard test for characterizing cardiac as well as noncardiac structure and function. […]
- Computed Tomography Angiography Assessment of Acute Aortic Syndromes: Classification, Differentiating Imaging Features, and Imaging Interpretation Pitfalls
An acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is an important life-threatening condition that requires early detection and management. Acute intramural hematoma […]
- Type 2 bridging bronchus with left pulmonary artery sling
Bridging bronchi are the rarest of the major airway anomalies reported in the literature. In this brief report, we present a case of a symptomatic […]
- Canadian Society of Thoracic Radiology/Canadian Association of Radiologists Best Practice Guidance for Investigation of Acute Pulmonary Embolism, Part 1: Acquisition and Safety Considerations
Acute pulmonary embolism (APE) is a well-recognized cause of circulatory system compromise and even demise which can frequently present a diagnostic […]
- Canadian Society of Thoracic Radiology/Canadian Association of Radiologists Best Practice Guidance for Investigation of Acute Pulmonary Embolism, Part 2: Technical Issues and Interpretation Pitfalls
The investigation of acute pulmonary embolism is a common task for radiologists in Canada. Technical image quality and reporting quality must be […]
- Canadian Society of Thoracic Radiology/Canadian Association of Radiologists Clinical Practice Guidance for Non-Vascular Thoracic MRI
Historically thoracic MRI has been limited by the lower proton density of lung parenchyma, cardiac and respiratory motion artifacts and long […]
- Left Ventricular Mass and Wall Thickness Measurements Using Echocardiography and Cardiac MRI in Patients with Fabry Disease: Clinical Significance of Discrepant Findings
CONCLUSION: TTE overestimates LVM and MWT and has lower reproducibility compared with cardiac MRI in Fabry disease. Measurement discrepancies between […]
- Diagnostic Imaging and Mechanical Objectivity in Medicine
BACKGROUND: Before the advent of automatism in image-making practices, scientists, anatomists, and physicians artistically depicted simplified images […]
- Assessing invasiveness of subsolid lung adenocarcinomas with combined attenuation and geometric feature models
The aim of this study was to develop and test multiclass predictive models for assessing the invasiveness of individual lung adenocarcinomas […]
- Clinical Significance of Papillary Muscles on Left Ventricular Mass Quantification Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Reproducibility and Prognostic Value in Fabry Disease
CONCLUSIONS: Inclusion or exclusion of papillary muscles has a significant effect on LVM quantified by cardiac MRI, and therefore, a standardized […]
- [Formula: see text]: deep learning-based radiomics for the time-to-event outcome prediction in lung cancer
Hand-crafted radiomics has been used for developing models in order to predict time-to-event clinical outcomes in patients with lung cancer. […]
- Canadian Society of Thoracic Radiology/Canadian Association of Radiologists Consensus Statement Regarding Chest Imaging in Suspected and Confirmed COVID-19
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared infection related to a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) a pandemic. The role and impact of […]
- Multimodality Assessment of Thoracic Aortic Dimensions: Comparison of Computed Tomography Angiography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Echocardiography Measurements
CONCLUSIONS: There is excellent agreement in thoracic aortic measurements between CT and MRI. However, TTE significantly underestimates maximum […]
- Contemporary considerations for the use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging during pregnancy
Cardiovascular imaging during pregnancy is frequently used to help direct diagnosis and management for women with known or suspected cardiac disease. […]
- Characteristics of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Outcomes in Adults With Repaired Truncus Arteriosus
The cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) features of adults with repaired truncus arteriosus (rTA) are largely undefined. We sought to […]
- Loss of base-to-apex circumferential strain gradient assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance in Fabry disease: relationship to T1 mapping, late gadolinium enhancement and hypertrophy
CONCLUSIONS: CMR reproducibly identifies myocardial strain abnormalities in FD. Loss of base-to-apex CS gradient may be an early marker of cardiac […]