TORONTO, ON — New data from Ontario show that almost 42% of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) who underwent a diagnostic angiogram within a 17-hospital network were found to have ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Yet another study, this one investigating the VA healthcare system in the US, has found wide variations between hospitals in terms of how many of the angiograms they perform turn up ...

Current clinical care patterns document the tendency to disregard patients with “normal” or nonobstructive coronary angiography who are predominantly women in the setting of chest pain symptoms. New ...

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 ...

Unrecognized MI Prevalent in Older Adults, Ups Mortality Patients who experience acute chest pain, and have nonobstructive coronary artery disease, as determined by coronary computed tomographic ...

(HealthDay)—Patients with normal or near-normal coronary angiogram (CA) results at age 65 years or older have significantly longer survival than the general population, according to a study published ...

SELECTIVE coronary angiography has become an invaluable means of distinguishing syndromes due to coronary-artery disease from those arising from other causes. Though much speculation has been made ...

TCT 1319: HD-IVUS Guided Tip Detection-Antegrade Dissection and Re-entry (TD-ADR) for CTO PCI: First Experience Using Commercially Available Equipment Available in North America Receive the the latest ...

Elective coronography has low diagnostic yield for obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). We aim to determine whether non-invasive aortic stiffness assessment improves diagnostic accuracy of CAD ...

Cardiac syndrome X, a special subform of non-cardiac chest pain with abnormal electrocardiographic but normal coronary angiogram, originates mostly from disorders of the esophagus and stomach. A ...