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 ...

Dr. Topol: Yes, thank you. We were all quite pleased about that. They got it wrong, though; they said the test was for heart attack. It is not for heart attack; obviously, it is for coronary disease.

London: A new testing protocol identifies patients whose chest pain is heart-related even though their main heart arteries look normal during typical exams, according to results of a new study. During ...

Chest pain may still be angina even when coronary angiogram testing shows the main heart arteries look clear. Using stress cardiac stress MRI testing to measure blood flow around the heart appears to ...

Patients who underwent coronary computed tomography angiography were more likely to later have invasive cardiac procedures and higher costs compared to patients who underwent stress testing, according ...

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 ...

A new network analysis adds yet more evidence that PCI performed with angiography alone is inferior to procedures performed either with adjunctive intravascular imaging or invasive functional tests.

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 ...

(Reuters) -A new testing protocol identifies patients whose chest pain is heart-related even though their main heart arteries look normal during typical exams, according to results of a new study.