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 ...

For patients undergoing coronary angiography for the assessment of atherosclerotic heart disease, it should be standard practice to include a lipid panel in precatheterization blood testing if a ...

Decisions on heart stenting consider multiple medical factors beyond blockage levels. In Bangalore, angioplasty costs vary.

The Boise VA Medical Center held an Open House to celebrate the opening of the new Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (Cath Lab), last week. The new Cardiac Cath Lab will allow the Boise VA Medical ...

An upgraded cardiac cath lab at the Freeman Heart & Vascular Institute will improve heart imaging and is safer for both patients and staff, according to Freeman. “We try to stay on the cutting edge of ...

Allegheny Health Network’s (AHN) Cardiovascular Institute newest cardiac catheterization laboratory is now open at AHN Wexford Hospital, following approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...

For most resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, rushing to angiography was no help for subsequent survival and in fact produced numerically worse outcomes, the TOMAHAWK trial ...