Cardiac Imaging: Page 14

iCAD partners with Solis on cardiovascular risk

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Artificial intelligence software developer iCAD is partnering with women's imaging center operator Solis Mammography on a research and commercial collaboration to use mammography exams to screen women for risk of heart disease.

October 10, 2022

CathWork's FFRangio System gets nod in Japan

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Japanese Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency has cleared the latest version of CathWork's FFRangio System for diagnosing functional ischemia in patients with ischemic coronary artery disease.

October 5, 2022

Ultromics joins initiative researching heart failure syndrome

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultromics recently joined as a full partner with the Accelerating Medicines Partnership Heart Failure initiative, designed to develop new diagnostic tools for heart failure.

September 29, 2022

SCCT offers CCTA guidelines for patients with acute chest pain

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has released guidelines detailing standards of practice for coronary CT angiography (CCTA) in patients presenting to emergency departments with acute chest pain.

September 28, 2022

Ultrasound helpful for interventional cardiology procedures

By Amerigo Allegretto

Routine ultrasound can help reduce the risk of venipuncture and number of arterial puncture attempts, as well as improve first-pass success when it comes to interventional heart procedures, a Canadian study published September 19 in JAMA Cardiology found.

September 19, 2022

Does Tc-99m SPECT damage DNA?

By Will Morton

A common laboratory test called a "comet assay" shows that radiation from technetium-99m (Tc-99m) SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging poses little risk of damaging a patient's DNA, according to a Brazilian group.

September 19, 2022

GE, Lantheus highlight flurpiridaz trial results

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A phase III trial found that Lantheus Medical Imaging's flurpiridaz F-18 investigational PET radiopharmaceutical outperformed SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with suspected coronary artery disease.

September 12, 2022

Imaging shows how HIV scores 'direct hit' to heart muscle

By Kate Madden Yee

HIV may affect the heart not only via the development of coronary artery disease (CAD) but also by a "direct hit to the heart muscle," a team of U.K. researchers has found. The results were published September 13 in JAMA.

September 12, 2022

Do we need a better way to evaluate cardiac screening?

By Frederic W. Grannis Jr.

Although coronary artery disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S. today, there is no accepted screening test for the disease. Dr. Frederic Grannis wonders whether recent research studies are asking the right question.

September 7, 2022

ASNC published new guide on hybrid imaging

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and three partner societies have offered new guidelines for the use of CT in hybrid nuclear/CT cardiac imaging, as published September 2 in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.

September 5, 2022

Medtronic acquires Affera

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medtronic recently completed its acquisition of Affera, a deal designed to expand Medtronic's cardiac ablation portfolio.

September 5, 2022

Viz.ai gets FDA clearance for new algorithm

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Viz.ai has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an algorithm to automatically calculate right-to-left ventricle diameter (RV/LV ratios) of the heart on CT scans.

August 31, 2022

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