Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Physician visual assessment was associated with higher stenosis severity readings than quantitative coronary ...

For patients with CAD, coronary computed tomography angiography fractional flow reserve (FFR-CT) is prognostic for adverse outcomes.

ORLANDO, FL — For certain elderly patients with severe aortic-valve stenosis who have CT angiography as part of a workup before transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR), the CT scan can also ...

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 ...

Noninvasive modalities, including duplex ultrasonography, renal scintigraphy, CT angiography and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), may usefully contribute to diagnosis and treatment planning in ...

In intermediate lesions, angiographic measures of stenosis severity greater than 50% are at odds with the conventional fractional flow reserve (FFR) value for predicting ischemia in about one-third of ...

This is a multicenter cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study on the prevalence and predictors of RAS in hypertensive patients undergoing coronary angiography between April 2007 and May 2008 at ...

Putting cardiologists in jail for performing unnecessary coronary stenting procedures based on the so-called 70/30 rule—which hinges on disagreements between treating physicians and outside experts on ...

Angina is chest pain caused by insufficient blood supply to the heart (myocardial ischaemia). Stable angina is brought on by physical activity or emotional stress and goes away with rest. It is the ...

The most common cause of carotid artery narrowing is a buildup of plaque in the arteries due to multiple risk factors such as smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, family history and ...

Angina is chest pain caused by insufficient blood supply to the heart (myocardial ischaemia). Stable angina is brought on by physical activity or emotional stress and goes away with rest. It is the ...