Cardiac Imaging: Page 81

Coronary CTA yields prognostic boost over CAC

By Eric Barnes

CHICAGO - In asymptomatic individuals at intermediate risk of coronary artery disease, coronary CT angiography (CCTA) significantly outperformed coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring for predicting cardiac events over 10 years, according to a Tuesday presentation at RSNA 2015. Is it time to think about replacing CAC with CCTA in people at intermediate risk?

December 1, 2015

MRI shows how heart changes during deep dives

By Wayne Forrest

CHICAGO - Cardiac MRI has uncovered the unusual ability of free divers -- who descend hundreds of feet into the ocean while holding their breath -- to develop "compensatory mechanisms" to recover heart function within minutes of breathing again.

December 1, 2015

ASE debuts cardiovascular ultrasound challenge

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Seeking to spur workflow efficiency improvements in cardiovascular ultrasound, the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) has kicked off the Echovation Challenge 2016 initiative for its members and the medical and scientific community.

November 24, 2015

3D images aid selection of heart transplant donors

By Eric Barnes

Researchers in Arizona are building a virtual library of 3D hearts in a bid to improve the matching process between heart transplant donors and recipients, and to make the best use of the perpetually tight supply of donor organs.

November 18, 2015

IVUS shines in guiding stents for long coronary lesions

By Erik L. Ridley

In patients receiving drug-eluting stents for long coronary lesions, guidance using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) yields much better outcomes than implantation guided by angiography, researchers from South Korea reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

November 16, 2015

Evena launches version 3.0 of 'smart glasses'

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Evena Medical has launched version 3.0 of its Eyes-On glasses, a point-of-care wearable ultrasound system for deep-tissue vascular imaging.

November 15, 2015

DWI-MRI shows which stroke patients need fast therapy

By Wayne Forrest

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a method that combines diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI-MRI) and key clinical characteristics to determine which severe stroke patients would most likely benefit from catheter-delivered removal of blood clots.

November 9, 2015

Aortic imaging goes (way) beyond diameter measures

By Eric Barnes

Tuesday, December 1 | 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | RC412A | Room S504ABThere's much more to aortic imaging than vessel diameter, according to a review course on aortic imaging that launches an advanced vascular imaging session on Tuesday.

November 9, 2015

Use criteria cut unnecessary heart interventions

By Kate Madden Yee

Appropriate use criteria for coronary revascularization have been effective in reducing the number of inappropriate percutaneous coronary interventions performed, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

November 8, 2015

Lantheus touts study on cardiac radiotracer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Lantheus Medical Imaging is touting data from a study of its investigational flurpiridaz F-18 radiotracer for myocardial perfusion imaging.

November 2, 2015

CCTA beats exercise stress in finding coronary stenosis

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) can detect significant coronary artery stenosis in 90% of those who have it, compared with 60% of those who undergo treadmill stress testing, according to a new multinational study in Circulation.

October 26, 2015

Digisonics integrates CVIS with GE's EchoPAC

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Digisonics has integrated its cardiovascular information system (CVIS) software with GE Healthcare's EchoPAC application for analyzing 3D/4D studies and ultrasound strain rate measurements.

October 26, 2015

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