Cardiac Imaging: Page 118

FDA advises imaging for patients with St. Jude leads

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is recommending that patients who have implantable heart defibrillators that use St. Jude Medical's Riata and Riata ST leads receive x-ray or other imaging exams to check for abnormalities in the insulation surrounding the lead.

August 16, 2012

CCTA equal to cardiac cath for guiding CAD therapy choices

By Eric Barnes

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) was nearly perfectly in line with cardiac catheterization in its selection of therapies for patients with a high likelihood of coronary artery disease (CAD), according to a new study in Radiology. The results showed that CCTA can determine patient management as well as invasive angiography while sparing many patients from invasive procedures, researchers said.

August 12, 2012

Algorithm boosts temporal resolution in CCTA

By Eric Barnes

Today's cardiac CT is more robust than ever, broadening the range of patients who can be imaged. One new tool improves all-important temporal resolution even in midrange scanners. The software creates a hybrid sample of image data to improve temporal resolution in cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) images of obese patients.

August 9, 2012

Philips wins Calif. Ambient contract

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare has won a contract with a California hospital to incorporate its Ambient Experience design elements into the hospital's electrophysiology lab.

August 8, 2012

HCA slammed for unnecessary cath procedures

By Eric Barnes

The largest for-profit hospital chain in the U.S. is under fire for performing thousands of cardiac catheterization procedures that were medically unnecessary, according to an August 6 article in the New York Times.

August 6, 2012

AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Imaging Insider

By Eric Barnes

August 5, 2012

Australian center halves CCTA dose using simple techniques

By Eric Barnes

An academic heart center in Australia has cut its coronary CT angiography (CCTA) dose in half over three years using simple techniques that emphasize prospective triggering, low kV settings, and aggressive beta-blockage, according to research presented at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography meeting in Baltimore.

July 29, 2012

Hepatitis C testing expands to Ariz. in Kwiatkowski case

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Arizona state and county public health officials are assisting two hospitals where cardiac cath technologist David Kwiatkowski had brief contracted assignments in notifying patients of potential exposure to hepatitis C.

July 25, 2012

ROMICAT II: CCTA more efficient to triage chest pain patients

By Eric Barnes

It's more efficient to use coronary CT angiography (CCTA) to rule out coronary artery disease for chest pain patients, according to results of the long-awaited Rule Out Myocardial Ischemia/Infarction Using Computer Assisted Tomography (ROMICAT) II trial, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

July 24, 2012

NH to expand hepatitis C testing

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

State health authorities in New Hampshire are extending a hepatitis C testing program in the wake of revelations that a traveling cardiac cath lab technologist may have infected patients with the disease after allegedly diverting fentanyl from the lab for his own use.

July 24, 2012

HeartIT signs Memorial Sloan-Kettering

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image management firm Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT) has received an order from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

July 23, 2012

SCCT: Dual-energy CTA may offer more accurate look at plaque

By Eric Barnes

A new dual-energy CT angiography (DECTA) protocol may provide a more accurate look at coronary artery calcium by eliminating artifacts that can bedevil more conventional CTA approaches, according to researchers from Virginia at this week's Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) meeting in Baltimore.

July 23, 2012

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