Adults who undergo coronary angiography immediately after cardiac arrest without ST-segment elevation may not live longer than those who undergo the procedure after a delay, 5-year data show.
A new expert opinion from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) examines the evolving role of ...
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 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stress tests are a thing of the past. Make way for coronary CT angiography. Wide-eyed medical students might ...
In 2018, Medicare established coverage and reimbursement for its first service using artificial intelligence (AI): computed tomography (CT) fractional flow reserve (FFRCT). FFRCT is used in ...
A 70-year-old woman with an acute myocardial infarction presented with ventricular fibrillation and SCAD of an obtuse marginal branch of the left circumflex artery (Panel A, bracket). Computed ...
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 ...
Across five common cardiology procedures, ASCs consistently post lower total costs than hospital outpatient departments — in some cases by more than $6,000 per case — driven largely by lower facility ...
Premenopausal women presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are a unique and often underrecognized patient population. Although they are traditionally considered at lower cardiovascular risk ...