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

A Mumbai hospital has successfully performed a rare and intricate heart surgery on an 18-month-old child diagnosed with a ...

"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 ...

“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 ...

Discover how intraoperative TEVAR pressure changes influence false lumen risk in aortic dissection—keep reading for clinical ...

The cardiologist also mentioned tests one can do to know the condition of their heart. “Consider a CT angiogram and a thallium test at least once a year (depending on your age and other factors ...

CT and MRI scans produce detailed images of the body. Learn the details and differences between CT scans and MRIs, and benefits and risks of each.

“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 to ...

Read about this extremely rare case of golf-related vertebral artery dissection.

Pericoronary adipose tissue (PCAT) is the deposition of fat in the vicinity of the coronary arteries. It is an indicator of coronary inflammation and associated with coronary artery disease.

Reproduced with permission from Alfonso et al. 21 Coronary CT angiography Multidetector row CT coronary angiography allows non-invasive imaging of coronary artery disease, albeit with lower spatial ...

Objectives To determine the accuracy of calcium-containing rings measurements imaged by three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE), multi-slice CT (MSCT) and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) under ideal ...