The technology, which led to a shift in strategy more than half of the time, could save $719 per symptomatic patient over 10 years.

“Sudden cardiac death is the leading cause of death in firefighters nationally, and it accounts for 40% of all line-of-duty deaths,” co-principal investigator Jeremy Gage, PA-C (South Metro Fire ...

A 68-year-old man with 1 week of bloating and constipation undergoes CT, which reveals Stanford type B aortic dissection ...

"Neither CT perfusion nor CT angiography met the prespecified threshold of greater than 98 percent for both sensitivity and specificity. Consequently, they should not be used as standalone tests ...

Once physicians decide to check up coronary arteries and also other cardiac components in CT Angiography, it should be done precisely to give the correct information about them. In this paper, we ...

Long-term outcomes after CT or invasive coronary angiography to diagnose CAD were similar, with comparable improvement in most quality of life measures and angina symptoms, researchers reported ...

Pretranscatheter aortic valve replacement-CT angiography safely deferred the need for invasive coronary angiography in 53% of patients, according to a study published May 21 in Circulation ...

Abstract Aortic dissection (AD) is a life-threatening disease due to a tear in the intimal layer of the aorta within the aortic wall. To compare diagnostic value and imaging of AD between computed ...

Medical imaging in clinical diagnoses and treatment has been increasingly important, and CT scan has been applied more widely. It is important to extract blood vessels structure for improving planning ...

What is cardiac CT angiography? A cardiac CT angiogram is a test that essentially conducts "a CAT scan for the heart," said Dr. Aeshita Dwivedi, a cardiologist at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital.

Later on, the patient underwent a digital subtraction angiography at the authors’ institute, where the patient was diagnosed with coarctation of the aorta. This was also confirmed on a CT aortogram. 3 ...