Coronary angiography could wait among people successfully resuscitated from cardiac arrest in the absence of ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI), longer-term results from the COACT trial confirmed.

Decisions on heart stenting consider multiple medical factors beyond blockage levels. In Bangalore, angioplasty costs vary.

A speedy trip to the cath lab for coronary angiography is not linked to better outcomes in patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest but do not have ST-segment elevation on an initial ECG, ...

After cardiac arrest, certain patients with suspected ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are denied emergent angiography due to adverse clinical factors or the judgment that ...

Ischemic heart disease is a major cause of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The role of immediate coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the treatment of patients who have ...

Cardiac arrest victims who receive coronary angiography are twice as likely to survive without significant brain damage compared with those who don't have the imaging procedure, according to a new ...

PHILADELPHIA — Patients who survived an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and did not have signs of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) had similar 1-year survival whether they had immediate or ...

Patients successfully resuscitated after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who did not have ST-segment elevation on their electrocardiogram did not benefit from emergency coronary angiography in a new ...

CORBIN — Baptist Health Corbin recently announced the launch of Coronary CT Angiography (CTA) with HeartFlow® FFRct Analysis, an advanced, noninvasive heart imaging service now available to patients ...

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Cardiac computed tomography (cardiac CT) includes coronary CT angiography (CTA) as well as using CT technology to assess disease of the cardiac valves, aorta and pericardium. This examination requires ...

A new heart scan is faster and has lower radiation exposure than MRI and invasive angiography, according to a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. Researchers compared three ...