Cardiovascular Radiology: Page 62

Ohio doctors indicted for unnecessary imaging tests
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Two Ohio physicians have been indicted for performing unnecessary medical procedures -- including imaging tests -- to defraud insurers, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio.
January 25, 2018
Philips wins Azurion order from Canadian hospital
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare has delivered its Azurion image-guided angiography platform to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie, Ontario.
January 22, 2018
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Report: Trump's calcium score indicates heart disease
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The coronary artery calcium CT score in President Donald Trump's recent medical examination revealed that he has moderate heart disease, according to a news report from CNN.
January 17, 2018
Doctors may be ordering too many coronary interventions
By Brian Casey
Physicians may be ordering too many percutaneous coronary intervention procedures by overestimating the degree of coronary stenosis in angiograms, according to a study from China published January 16 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
January 16, 2018
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USPSTF rejects adding new risk factors for heart disease
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Should new risk factors such as coronary artery calcium and ankle-brachial index be added to traditional risk factors for assessing which patients might be at risk of peripheral arterial disease and cardiovascular disease? Not so fast, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
January 15, 2018
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Right heart quantification awareness: Part 6
By Judith Buckland
In the sixth installment of this series, Judith Buckland from consulting firm CardioServ offers a quantitative method for performing right ventricular index of myocardial performance (RIMP), which can be used to evaluate right ventricular function with echocardiography.
January 15, 2018
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CMS to ease rules for MRI scans of implantable devices
By Brian Casey
Reimbursement could soon get a lot easier for MRI scans of patients with implantable cardiac devices. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on January 11 proposed withdrawing its requirement that payments for these scans only be made when the scans are performed within a clinical study.
January 10, 2018
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CCTA predicts heart events in stable chest pain patients
By Brian Casey
By detecting high-risk plaque, coronary CT angiography (CCTA) can predict major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with stable chest pain, according to a January 10 study in JAMA Cardiology. But the jury is still out on whether CCTA findings should be added to risk stratification tools such as Framingham scores.
January 10, 2018
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ASE releases guide for imaging Chagas disease
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) has released a new guide for imaging patients with Chagas disease, an infectious parasitic illness transmitted by insects. The document was published in the January issue of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.
January 2, 2018
NEJM: No long-term effects on cardiac devices with MRI
By Wayne Forrest
There's good news for patients with cardiac devices who are about to undergo an MRI scan. Researchers found no long-term clinically significant adverse events with the devices in a study of more than 1,000 scans, according to results published in the December 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
January 1, 2018
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How often are lung nodules missed on CAC scoring scans?
By Abraham Kim
If an incidental lung nodule is present on a CT coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring scan, how often is that nodule actually detected and worked up? Not as often as one might expect, according to researchers who analyzed the reasons why nodules might be missed in a presentation at RSNA 2017.
December 20, 2017
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FFR-CT algorithm guides management of revascularization
By Abraham Kim
A deep-learning algorithm that analyzes fractional flow reserve CT (FFR-CT) scans was able to determine almost as well as invasive FFR which patients suspected of having coronary artery disease should be referred for revascularization. The finding could lead to better, less-invasive care, according to a presentation at RSNA 2017.
December 17, 2017
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