New York, NY - Cardiologists and emergency department (ED) physicians faced with a young woman complaining of chest pain may want to choose a diagnostic test other than cardiac CT angiography (CTA), ...

SEATTLE — If you've ever worried about your heart health but scared to undergo an invasive treatment to get it checked, there’s a test that offers answers without a hospital stay or surgery. Dr.

MADRID, Spain—Routine use of CT angiography after PCI for left main coronary artery disease does not lower the risk of major adverse cardiac events, results of the PULSE trial show. There was a signal ...

AI-enabled coronary CT angiography reveals total plaque burden beyond calcium scores, improving risk prediction and personalizing cardiovascular prevention.

An analysis of diagnostic test results from the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) trial - in which patients with stable chest pain were randomized to either ...

An artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted algorithm that incorporates information about inflammation detected on coronary CT angiography (CCTA) may help identify patients who require more-intensive ...

A cohort study of more than 9,000 persons found that in asymptomatic middle-aged persons without known cardiovascular disease, subclinical, obstructive coronary atherosclerosis is associated with a ...

Patterns of persistent risk often emerge in these allegations. One common theme is test selection: A surprising number of medical malpractice lawsuits stem from improper requests for imaging.

A heart CT scan uses X-rays to create an image of the heart and blood vessels. Healthcare professionals may also refer to it as cardiac CT angiography. A CT scan is a noninvasive imaging procedure.