Cardiac Imaging: Page 180

Heart attacks are rare a year after negative coronary CTA
By Eric Barnes
Patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes who are discharged after a negative coronary CT angiography (CTA) exam suffer very few cardiac events in the following year, according to a study unveiled today at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's annual meeting.
May 14, 2009
Medtronic touts MRI pacemaker study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology firm Medtronic is touting clinical results released at Heart Rhythm 2009 that show that patients with the company's EnRhythm MRI-safe pacemaker experienced no complications during the exam.
May 13, 2009
Molecular Insight lowers loss in Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lower drug development costs helped radiopharmaceutical developer Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals reduce its loss in the first quarter of 2009.
May 11, 2009
SCCT publishes cardiac CTA guidelines
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
New guidelines for the performance of coronary CT angiography (CTA) have been published online by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in the May/June 2009 issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
May 6, 2009
GE and Hansen ink angio deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has inked an agreement with Hansen Medical to jointly market robotic catheter technology with angiography systems.
May 6, 2009
ProSolv adds to client list
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardiology information management firm ProSolv CardioVascular has received an order from Allina Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis.
May 6, 2009
Fast, irregular heart rhythms near cath increase death risk
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Heart attack patients who experience rapid or abnormal heart rhythms before or after coronary artery intervention or stent placement are far more likely to die within 90 days of the procedure, researchers report in the May 6 Journal of the American Medical Association.
May 4, 2009
FDA clears GE's OEC C-arm
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its OEC 9900 Elite C-arm cardiac and vascular systems.
May 4, 2009
DraxImage gets FDA nod for generic sestamibi
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian radiopharmaceutical firm DraxImage has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its generic sestamibi offering.
May 3, 2009
SNM hosts cardiovascular symposium
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The SNM Symposium on Multimodality Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging convened for a second day on May 1 at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, to discuss the prevention of cardiac events as a next step toward improving cardiovascular health and patient care.
May 3, 2009
Higher skin radiation dose seen in angiography vs. coronary CTA
By Eric Barnes
Radiation dose measured at the skin is higher and overall effective doses more variable with conventional angiography compared to coronary CT angiography (CTA), say researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina.
May 3, 2009
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UltraSPECT launches new SPECT package
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm UltraSPECT has added a new SPECT package to its product line.
April 30, 2009
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