Aspirin has recently been questioned as a preventive for heart attacks, even though we have been using it for decades. Statin ...

Neither CT perfusion nor CT angiography meet the prespecified validation threshold as an ancillary test for death by neurologic criteria in critically ill patients.

In a nutshell A diet low in fiber and high in red meat was linked to dangerous coronary plaques that are more likely to trigger heart attacks People with the poorest diets had 67% higher odds of ...

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 ...

How hardware, software, and AI go hand in hand for improved cardiac imaging . The Philips CT 5300 system features NanoPanel Precise, the industry’s first CT detector built from the ground up ...

Coronary CT Angiography (CTA) Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) is a noninvasive heart imaging test currently undergoing rapid development and advancement.

Only about one-fourth of patients with coronary CTA exams suggesting significant blockage or narrowing who subsequently underwent CT-FFR ended up having invasive coronary angiography, compared ...

Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA or CTA) has emerged as a first-line tool for diagnosing, treating, and evaluating the prognosis of various cardiac diseases. In this special issue of ...

For adults with stable chest pain, coronary CTA may be as useful as direct invasive coronary angiography and may be the best diagnostic strategy vs. stress testing and single-photon emission CT ...

Kofoed KF, Engstrøm T, Sigvardsen PE, et al. Prognostic value of coronary CT angiography in patients with non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021;77:1044-1052.

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