Quantifying blood flow instead of relying on angiography alone led to a change in diagnosis for 53% of patients.

Chest pain may still be angina even when coronary angiogram testing shows the main heart arteries look clear. Using stress ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most prevalent form of heart disease, affecting approximately 18 million adults in the ...

Stress CMR significantly enhances diagnostic accuracy for chest pain without obstructive coronary artery disease, identifying ...

Symptomatic people with evidence of coronary artery disease on imaging significantly benefited from statin use while those ...

Performing angioplasty and angiography through the radial artery of the arm is as effective as the traditional method of entering through the femoral artery of the groin, but has fewer complications ...

"Following standard angiography, microvascular angina was commonly misdiagnosed as noncardiac chest pain," he added.

THE diagnosis of pancreatic neoplasms is difficult because of the inaccessibility of the organ to the usual means of examination. Conventional methods of diagnostic, radiography are helpful in only a ...

A new type of imaging technique using an MRI device can detect most diseased coronary arteries, potentially sparing many heart patients a more invasive, expensive and uncomfortable test, researchers ...

A novel type of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography is highly accurate in identifying blockages in the arteries that carry blood to the brain, according to a study in the February issue ...

A new testing protocol identifies patients whose chest pain is heart-related even though their main heart arteries look ...