Cardiac Imaging: Page 283

AuntMinnie.com CT Radiology Insider
By Eric Barnes
Radiologists are honing in on the secrets of CT coronary calcium scoring. This is the decade, after all, when researchers vowed to make more sense of calcium’s role in both cardiac risk and patient management. And while hundreds of coronary calcium studies on the books make a solid starting point, new technologies and creative study design are providing new levels of answers.
April 25, 2004
Agfa signs Belgian ASZ Aalst
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has received an order for its Impax for Cardiology PACS network from the ASZ in Aalst, Belgium.
April 22, 2004
EBCT finds cardiac risk that Framingham doesn't predict
By Jerry Ingram
A sizeable new study has found many patients with low risk also turn out to have abnormal coronary artery calcification (CAC) on electron-beam CT (EBCT). The research could provide additional information on cardiac risk beyond that given by the venerable Framingham Risk Score.
April 22, 2004
EP MedSystems gets FDA clearance
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Electrophysiology device developer EP MedSystems of West Berlin, NJ, has received Food and Drug Administration clearance for its line of "deflectable" diagnostic catheters.
April 18, 2004
AuntMinnie.com Cardiac Imaging Radiology Insider
By Tracie L. Thompson
April 18, 2004
Study finds link between RAS and cardiovascular disease risk
By Peggy Peck
Results of a retrospective analysis suggest that renal artery stenosis (RAS) is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but not for cerebrovascular disease, according to a presentation at the 2004 Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) meeting in Phoenix.
April 18, 2004
Millenium to enter radiology, cardiology markets
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Financial services company Millenium Holding Group of Las Vegas has acquired a 15-year license from U.S. Probe to develop, manufacture, and distribute an ultrasonic probe.
April 12, 2004
Study offers strategy for safe MRI with pacemakers
By Shalmali Pal
Cardiac and MRI specialists have joined together to develop a seven-step guideline for cautiously and effectively imaging patients with pacemakers. They devised this risk/benefit profile after performing a prospective study of 54 pacemaker patients who required MRI or MR angiography (MRA).
April 11, 2004
Cordis stent gets CE OK
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology developer Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, has received CE Mark approval to market its Cypher Select sirolimus-eluting coronary stent in all member states of the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland.
April 7, 2004
Agfa nets UK cardiac Impax install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has been awarded two contracts for implementation of its Impax for Cardiology PACS product at two National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in the U.K.
April 7, 2004
Siemens inks deal with St. Elizabeth
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions has won a contract with St. Elizabeth's Hospital to renovate the Belleville, IL-based facility's cardiac catheterization laboratories.
April 5, 2004
Radiologists correlate coronary calcium with other CVD markers
By Eric Barnes
When is CT calcium screening most clearly indicated, and when might calcium assessment with CT be less informative? At the 2004 European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, investigators from Spain examined these questions in a study of 152 asymptomatic patients who were self-referred for cardiovascular disease risk.
April 5, 2004
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