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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Physicians who ordered more CT pulmonary angiogram scans experienced a markedly decreased proportion of positive results, according to new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Chong and ...

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 ...

—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 ...