For people with stable chest pain and an intermediate pretest probability of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), an initial CT strategy fared similarly to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AI accurately predicted several measures of cardiac function from routine coronary angiography. Such ...

For patients with CAD, coronary computed tomography angiography fractional flow reserve (FFR-CT) is prognostic for adverse outcomes.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America and across the world. According to the CDC, more than 600,000 Americans will have a heart attack this year. As a result many of us — or someone ...

Noninvasive coronary angiography has been the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine for decades. Cardiac CT angiography obtained with multislice CT technology is finally reaching the high standard in ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the number one cause of death in men and women. CAD is caused by atherosclerotic plaques developing in the coronary arteries. Many therapies have been shown to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Performing an emergency vs. delayed coronary angiogram after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without ST segment ...

Contrast medium is injected intravenously, and multidetector technology is used to take an image of the heart during a single breath hold (acquisition time ~8 s for 64 detectors). Blockade is ...

A coronary angiogram is basically an X-ray photograph of the heart's arteries to look for blockages. It should NOT be done to diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) in a stable patient, as this is ...

Interventionalists don’t often order a CXR ahead of time, but when it’s already been done, some find the added info useful.