The likelihood of finding significant coronary obstruction on elective diagnostic angiography varies considerably across hospitals in the United States. Moreover, rates of imaging-revealed disease ...

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

ORLANDO, FL — Although coronary CT angiography to assess the left atrium and pulmonary veins prior to ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) is commonly considered not to be as good as a coronary ...

Editor's Note: Ricardo C. Cury, MD (Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Radiology Associates of South Florida), a noninvasive cardiovascular radiologist and past president of the Society of ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Quality of life and angina burden were similar after CT or invasive angiography for CAD diagnosis. Women ...

Recent efforts to reduce the radiation dose delivered by coronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA) have yielded a safer version of the diagnostic technology, one that matches the sensitivity of ...

Six million people each year in the US go to the emergency department (ED) with acute chest pain. Although only 10-15% of them turn out to have an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), most are admitted to ...

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 3, 2014) - CardioDx, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company specializing in cardiovascular genomics, today announced the publication of a new analysis demonstrating ...

1958: In the basement laboratory of an Ohio hospital, a cardiologist accidentally injects a large amount of dye into the small vessels of a patient's heart during a routine imaging test. To the doctor ...

SEATTLE — If you've ever worried about your heart health but scared to undergo an invasive treatment to get it checked, there’s a test that offers answers without a hospital stay or surgery. Dr.