A routine strategy that assesses function of all epicardial vessels at the time of diagnostic angiography in patients with new-onset chest pain doesn’t cost any more than conventional diagnostic ...

After the publication of appropriate use criteria (AUC) for diagnostic angiography in 2012, use of the test decreased among patients treated in the Canadian province of Ontario. The proportion of ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Late-breaking results presented today confirm that incorporating the HeartFlow ® FFRct Analysis into a coronary computed tomography angiogram (CTA)-led ...

LONDON, UK — The use of a diagnostic strategy with fractional flow reserve (FFR) derived from computed tomography (CT) significantly reduces the number of patients requiring invasive coronary ...

New insights from the AI-ENCODE study showed artificial intelligence (AI) successfully allowed the automated extraction of key functional and physiological data from routine angiograms. The ...

Angiography is a diagnostic heart test, not a treatment, helping doctors detect blockages and determine the best care.

A heart problem rarely arrives very silently. Chest discomfort, breathlessness, or an abnormal stress test can suddenly bring ...

Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

TORONTO, ON — New data from Ontario show that almost 42% of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) who underwent a diagnostic angiogram within a 17-hospital network were found to have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adding fractional flow reserve assessment of all epicardial vessels at the time of diagnostic coronary ...

Spinal angiography has historically been associated with a high risk of complications, but up-to-date safety reports are lacking. A recent retrospective review found a low complication rate of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Chong and colleagues conducted a retrospective review of all CTPAs performed between September 2014 to January ...