Cardiac Imaging: Page 54

ScImage, Cardiac Imaging team up on the cloud

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PACS vendor ScImage has partnered with Cardiac Imaging to leverage its cloud architecture to support the acquisition of cardiac images from more locations.

September 9, 2018

Is Medicare paying enough for MRI-compatible implants?

By Wayne Forrest

U.S. hospitals could be losing up to $400 million annually on placing MRI-compatible cardiac rhythm management devices in patients due to a discrepancy between what the devices cost and what Medicare is paying for them, according to a new report by group purchasing organization Vizient.

September 6, 2018

Imaging modalities differ in assessing key heart metric

By Wayne Forrest

There is "substantial variability" in the way that different medical imaging modalities measure left ventricular ejection fraction, a key measure of heart function. This variation should be seriously considered before patient treatment, according to an international study published online August 31 in JAMA Network Open.

September 5, 2018

5 reasons why CCTA should be a first-line test for CAD

By Abraham Kim

Mounting evidence suggests that coronary CT angiography (CCTA) may be the best first-line test for evaluating possible coronary artery disease (CAD). Physicians from Virginia and Texas detailed five features of CCTA that support this idea in an article published online August 28 in the Journal of Thoracic Imaging.

September 3, 2018

New protocol enables faster, cheaper cardiac MRI scans

By Wayne Forrest

Researchers have developed a rapid contrast-enhanced cardiac MRI protocol that can measure structure, function, and scarring in the heart in less than 20 minutes and at considerably lower cost than standard MRI protocols, according to results published on August 29 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

August 29, 2018

Echocardiography helps predict PE outcomes

By Kate Madden Yee

Transthoracic echocardiography can help clinicians predict short-term mortality outcomes for patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), according to a study published online August 26 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

August 28, 2018

CCTA biomarker may predict mortality from heart disease

By Abraham Kim

The use of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) to measure fatty tissue around arteries could help predict the risk of mortality from heart disease, according to research published online on 28 August in the Lancet and being presented at the European Society of Cardiology congress in Munich.

August 28, 2018

CathWorks touts FFR research at TCT 2018

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Israeli imaging analysis software developer CathWorks said that results from a pivotal trial evaluating its FFRangio fractional flow reserve (FFR) analysis software will be presented at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) annual meeting in September in San Diego.

August 27, 2018

Radiologist use of CCTA continues its upswing

By Abraham Kim

The utilization rate of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) by radiologists has hit an all-time high since Medicare started covering the test in 2006 -- now surpassing the usage rate of CCTA by cardiologists by 20%, according to an article published online August 26 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

August 27, 2018

CT finds heart disease in patients with lung cancer

By Abraham Kim

Assessing coronary artery disease on the CT scans of patients with lung cancer can help clinicians identify which patients require surgery for both the heart and lungs, according to research published online August 16 in the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon.

August 26, 2018

SCOT-HEART: CCTA cuts risk of heart attack, death by 41%

By Abraham Kim

Patients with chest pain who underwent coronary CT angiography (CCTA) with standard care had a markedly lower rate of myocardial infarction or death from coronary artery disease than those who only received standard care in a new study, published on August 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

August 24, 2018

Philips to debut Epiq CVx scanners at ESC 2018 congress

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Royal Philips, the parent company of Philips Healthcare, said it will introduce Epiq CVx, a line of new cardiovascular ultrasound scanners, at the upcoming European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Munich.

August 21, 2018

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