CT scans are becoming a more commonly used tool to effectively determine a patient’s future risk of heart disease and heart ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Coronary CTA is as useful as direct invasive coronary angiography when evaluating stable chest pain. Coronary CT ...

As technology offers more tools to help diagnose heart disease, you may need to adjust your approach. Here’s the latest on one of those new tools. One of the greatest challenges facing primary-care ...

Coronary artery calcium scoring with CT can identify symptomatic patients with a very low risk of heart attacks or strokes, according to a new study published today in Radiology, a journal of the ...

For people with stable chest pain and an intermediate pretest probability of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), an initial CT strategy fared similarly to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) ...

For patients with chest pain who are at low risk of acute coronary syndromes, a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score of zero rules out CAD and the need for revascularization in the vast majority of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with stable chest pain and intermediate pretest probability of CAD, risk for major adverse CV events ...

There is an emerging convergence between atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and cancer, driven by shared risk factors and overlapping pathophysiologic mechanisms. Traditional factors, such as ...

BOSTON, MA—In the coming years, the amount of information that can be gleaned from a cardiac CT scan will be enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, and that’s expected to improve ...

In the past, it’s been common practice to look to advances in computed tomography (CT) imaging system hardware for improvements in cardiac imaging. Innovation in the hardware of the machine itself has ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WFXR)- The Centra Foundation was awarded a $450,000 grant from Al Stroobants Foundation to help fund a new ...