Giving CT angiogram scans to people coming to the emergency room with chest pain could improve the speed of heart attack detection and lower costs, a research study has found. Among the findings were ...

Česky: Koronární arterie s anglickým popisem English: heart with coronary arteries (Photo credit: Wikipedia According to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, using coronary CT scans ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO — Researchers evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of a powerful new 64-slice multidetector computed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with stable chest pain and intermediate pretest probability of CAD, risk for major adverse CV events ...

An ultrafast, 320-detector computed tomography (CT) scanner that shows both anatomy within coronary arteries and blood flowcan accurately sort out which people need – or don’t need – an invasive ...

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 ...

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CT has been utilized for a) coronary angiography (coronary CTA) and b) coronary calcium scoring. The coronary arteries had conventionally been visualized using invasive coronary angiography that ...

We conducted a multicenter study to examine the accuracy of 64-row, 0.5-mm multidetector CT angiography as compared with conventional coronary angiography in patients with suspected coronary artery ...

Doha: Heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, claiming millions of lives each year. Early detection is the most powerful weapon in preventing its devastating consequences. Over the ...

Morton Kern, MD, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in cardiology. Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of ...