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Echo screening cost-effective after childhood chemo
By Eric Barnes
Young cancer patients treated with chemotherapy can be screened cost-effectively throughout their adult lives with echocardiography to help them live longer, according to a pair of just-released studies in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
May 18, 2014
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Digisonics installs CVIS in Fla.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image management firm Digisonics has installed its cardiovascular information system (CVIS) at a site in Florida.
May 18, 2014
Outpatient echo code bundling has unintended effects
By Kate Madden Yee
When Medicare began code bundling for echocardiography scans in 2009, the move produced a sharp drop in outpatient claims from cardiologists -- which was expected. But the success of code bundling could have unintended effects for both echocardiography and other imaging exams, according to a study in the May Journal of the American College of Radiology.
May 14, 2014
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CAC scores help guide aspirin therapy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Only people with coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores of 100 or greater should undergo aspirin therapy to prevent a heart attack, concludes a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
May 12, 2014
Low iodine and kVp plus iterative recon improves CCTA
By Eric Barnes
Using less iodine, reduced tube voltage, and iterative reconstruction maintains image quality while significantly cutting radiation dose in coronary CT angiography (CCTA) scans, according to a study from researchers in China and the U.S.
May 11, 2014
Biotronik gets FDA nod for Entovis
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Biotronik has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its Entovis pacemaker system with ProMRI technology.
May 6, 2014
FDA OKs Siemens' Artis One angio system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Artis One angiography system.
May 4, 2014
NIRS-IVUS sees lipid core plaque in vivo
By Eric Barnes
A new technique based on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) used during an intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) procedure is the first to directly visualize unstable lipid core plaque, according to an article in the Journal of Invasive Cardiology.
April 29, 2014
BMI tied to soft plaque at CCTA in diabetes patients
By Eric Barnes
A new study of diabetes patients shows a direct relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the soft coronary artery plaques found on coronary CT angiography (CCTA) that portend a high risk for coronary events, according to research published online in Radiology.
April 21, 2014
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CCTA plus stress CT MPI boosts diagnosis of high-risk patients
By Eric Barnes
Combining coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and stress CT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) improves the evaluation of coronary artery stenosis in high-risk patients, reducing the number of false positives and potentially the number of unnecessary interventions, according to new research from the Medical University of South Carolina.
April 20, 2014
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Stress cardiac MRI aids early emergency dept. evaluations
By Wayne Forrest
When performed within 12 hours of a patient coming to an emergency department with chest pain, adenosine stress cardiac MRI is valuable for the "safe, quick, and accurate" diagnosis of significant coronary artery disease, according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology.
April 6, 2014
CCTA shows that HIV patients have more noncalcified plaque
By Eric Barnes
Patients with HIV infection are more prone to potentially dangerous noncalcified coronary plaque than similar uninfected individuals, according to a study that used coronary CT angiography (CCTA). Results were published in the April 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
April 3, 2014
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