According to Merrill H. Stewart, MD, Ochsner Health, the test can more accurately identify high-risk patients while helping others avoid unnecessary invasive procedures. Cardiac positron emission ...
People with heart failure often need a test called right heart catheterization, where a tube is inserted into the heart to ...
ALTON OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s Health Center is now offering a CT cardiac calcium scoring test. This non-invasive test, ...
Non-invasive Vivio System Uses Left Ventricular End-Diastolic Pressure (LVEDP), While Invasive Device Measures Pulmonary Artery Pressure (PAP) As Surrogate for LVEDP Ventric Health, a medtech ...
Scientists hope their findings will potentially spare tens of thousands of future heart patients from undergoing a procedure.
NEW YORK -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest ...
A new technology that allows doctors to quantify blood flow in the heart can improve their ability to diagnose potentially ...
Researchers and surgeons at Florida International University (FIU) are helping turn the tide on cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, through early detection, ...