Cardiac Imaging: Page 88

Does ECR increase patient survival rate?

By Dr. Peter Rinck, PhD

Spring is in the air -- the conference season has arrived. Major conferences are a win-win situation for both patients and doctors, the Maverinck writes in his latest column. The doctors get some days off, and the patients survive.

March 3, 2015

ScImage updates echo reporting standards

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

ScImage has updated its cardiac quantification metrics to match guidelines from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.

March 1, 2015

SCCT names Linsky as executive director

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography's (SCCT) board of trustees has appointed Norm Linsky as the society's new executive director.

February 26, 2015

Hitachi Aloka expands cardiovascular sales force

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Hitachi Aloka Medical America is expanding its sales force with a new dedicated group targeting cardiovascular ultrasound opportunities in physicians' offices and clinics.

February 17, 2015

Agfa launches enterprise cardiology suite at ACC 2015

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare plans to launch its Enterprise Imaging for Cardiology Suite and highlight its partnership with imaging software developer TomTec Imaging Systems at the upcoming American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting in San Diego.

February 16, 2015

Study: 1 in 4 Saudis headed for heart attack

By Eric Barnes

Within the next 10 years, one-fourth of all adults in Saudi Arabia will have a heart attack, according to research presented at the Saudi Heart Association annual conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

February 12, 2015

High cost tempers value of PET/MRI for cardiac lesions

By Wayne Forrest

The ability of FDG-PET/MRI to detail morphology and assess malignancy makes it a "powerful tool" for the diagnostic workup of cardiac tumors, but it should be used judiciously because of its high cost and limited availability, according to a new study from Germany in the February Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

February 9, 2015

Sorin gets Japanese nod for MRI-compatible pacemaker

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Sorin Group said it has received regulatory approval in Japan for a new MRI-compatible pacemaker.

February 8, 2015

CANM: Nuclear MPI tests could help ED docs rule out patients

By Louise Gagnon

The broader use of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) stress tests could help emergency department (ED) physicians better determine which patients can be safely discharged after a normal electrocardiogram and negative biomarker results, according to a February 1 talk at the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine (CANM) meeting in Montreal.

February 4, 2015

CT scans link arterial calcium to kidney stones

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

People who develop recurrent kidney stones have more calcium in their arteries on CT scans, which may explain their increased risk of heart disease, according to new research published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

February 1, 2015

Societies release thoracic aorta imaging guidance

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging have jointly released new guidance to help clinicians make imaging decisions for detecting thoracic aorta disease in adults.

January 26, 2015

Experts discount JAMA study urging discharge of chest pain patients

By Eric Barnes

Low-risk chest pain patients should be sent home without imaging, concludes a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine. But several experts are disputing the study's main finding that treadmill stress tests, as well as CT and other imaging tests, have no value in preventing heart attacks in low-risk individuals.

January 25, 2015

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