Patients who had a CT scan to check for build-up in the arteries around the heart had more surgeries, and more costly medical care, than those who had their hearts checked with basic stress tests, in ...

Symptomatic people with evidence of coronary artery disease on imaging significantly benefited from statin use while those ...

Giving CT angiogram scans to people coming to the emergency room with chest pain could improve the speed of heart attack detection and lower costs, a research study has found. Among the findings were ...

Learn about CT Calcium Scoring, a non-invasive test for assessing cardiac risk in individuals over 30 with potential symptoms ...

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) has opened its first specialized angiography-CT suite to enhance ...

New UK recommendations for the assessment of chest pain are prioritizing the use of CT angiography in cases where a diagnosis of stable angina cannot be excluded on the basis of a clinical assessment ...

December 16, 2008 (Washington, DC) — The latest study to compare the diagnostic accuracy of CT angiography (CTA) to the gold standard--conventional coronary angiography (CCA)--indicates that the ...

How much is the more dangerous soft plaque that could rupture and cause a heart attack or stroke? Budoff is one of a ...

For patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes (ACS) CT angiography (CTA) compared to standard treatment can reduce the time in the emergency department (ED), according to results of the ROMICAT ...

The patient was an appropriate-for-gestational-age male infant born at 39 weeks to a 19-year-old mother (G3P1102) and unrelated father. Prenatal care was not sought until 32 weeks of gestation.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients who had a CT scan to check for build-up in the arteries around the heart had more surgeries, and more costly medical care, than those who had their hearts checked ...