For decades, the coronary angiogram has been considered the gold standard for detecting blocked arteries that cause a heart attack. When patients are told their angiogram is “normal”, it often brings ...

A coronary angiography is a test that doctors use to look at the coronary arteries. A coronary angiography may help diagnose certain heart conditions. The coronary arteries bring oxygenated blood to ...

TCT 275: FANTOM II Long Lesion Study: Initial Safety & Performance Study of the Fantom Sirolimus-Eluting Bioresorbable Coronary Scaffold in Long Lesions – First Report: 1 Year Outcomes Receive the the ...

CT coronary angiography (CTCA) was found to be safe and effective for evaluating coronary artery disease in patients with a low-to-intermediate pretest probability of the disease. It demonstrated a ...

For people with stable chest pain and an intermediate pretest probability of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), an initial CT strategy fared similarly to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) ...

Statin therapy remains a cornerstone for primary and secondary prevention of major adverse cardiac events (MACEs), but prescribing based on patient phenotype identified through imaging may boost its ...

(UPDATED) Patients presenting with chest pain who are excluded for myocardial infarction but have troponin levels that fall into the intermediate range are more likely to have coronary artery disease ...

Cardiac or coronary catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. Cardiac catheterization involves a doctor inserting a long ...

LOS ANGELES (ALL INFORMATION IS EMBARGOED UNTIL PRESENTED – TIMES INDICATED BELOW) – Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center will make several ...

Only a few months after it emerged from stealth and burst onto the medtech scene, Cleerly is already living up to its name. The newly published results of a study show that the New York City-based ...

For decades, a clean coronary angiogram has been considered reassuring, almost synonymous with a healthy heart. But cardiologists are now warning that this assumption can be dangerously misleading. A ...