Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stress tests are a thing of the past. Make way for coronary CT angiography. Wide-eyed medical students might ...

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 ...

Noninvasive CT scans are far better at finding clogged arteries that can trigger a heart attack than the exercise stress tests most chest pain patients take, research shows. A new head-to-head ...

Dr James Min (Cornell University, New York, NY) presented the ACCURACY results Monday at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2007 meeting. In ACCURACY, he told heart wire, investigators ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the number one cause of death in men and women. CAD is caused by atherosclerotic plaques developing in the coronary arteries. Many therapies have been shown to ...

After controlling for known CV risk factors, all FFR-CT subgroups remained significantly associated with MI, ...

The medical team will not perform CT Angio when your ECG and stress test results show no issues, and you belong to a low-risk group for heart problems. The American College of Cardiology and American ...

For patients with diabetes and stable coronary artery disease, use of CT angiography is associated with fewer adverse cardiovascular events when compared with screening that employs functional stress ...

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 ...

Going straight to CT angiography when patients present at an emergency department with chest pain offers a faster, cheaper and more accurate diagnosis for some patients, a new study concludes. The ...