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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ad hoc PCI done by an interventional cardiologist after a noninterventional colleague performs the invasive diagnostic angiogram is an acceptable—albeit declining—practice, an analysis of the CathPCI ...

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 ...

Our heart works continuously, pumping blood throughout the body and keeping us alive. When the heart functions properly, we ...

A new technique accurately diagnosed coronary microvascular disease and reduced misdiagnosis. Learn more about this ...

Every year, innovations in medical technology make it easier and more affordable for patients to access state-of-the-art health care. Procedures that once required months of waiting for hospital ...

New York / Heidelberg, 7 March 2011 A new study published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering shows that a MEMS thermal sensor deployed by an angiogram catheter can detect the earliest stages of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The direct to angiography approach is known to hasten the time to procedure, but this approach's efficacy and ...

—Based on their findings, these investigators believe that the benefits of computed tomography pulmonary angiogram for detection of a suspected pulmonary embolism in hospitalized patients with chronic ...

A transradial approach (TRA) for cerebral angiography was less effective than the transfemoral route in achieving an accurate diagnostic success rate. Study investigator, Wei Ni, MD, Huashan Hospital, ...