Cardiovascular Radiology: Page 90

HeartFlow promotes FFR study at EuroPCR

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Cardiac software developer HeartFlow is promoting a study at this week's EuroPCR 2015 meeting in Paris on the use of its fractional flow reserve (FFR) CT analysis software to assess the severity of coronary artery stenosis.

May 20, 2015

ASE, Ke Labs to collaborate

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and Knowledge Engineering Laboratories (Ke Labs) have signed a collaboration agreement.

May 7, 2015

Lantheus grows Q1 revenues, swings into black

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Lantheus Medical Imaging saw 2% growth in revenues for the first quarter of 2015, while the firm swung into the black from the net loss reported in the same quarter a year ago.

May 5, 2015

Lantheus touts new PET agent study

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Lantheus Medical Imaging is touting a phase III study of its flurpiridaz F-18 investigational PET agent for myocardial perfusion imaging, with data presented at the International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT in Madrid.

May 3, 2015

CT reveals cardioembolic stroke that echo misses

By Eric Barnes

Echocardiography may be the de facto gold standard for cardiac evaluation of patients suspected of having cardioembolic stroke, but it isn't necessarily the best modality. A new study from Saudi Arabia used CT to discover several thrombi that echo had missed, along with other conditions.

April 30, 2015

Congenital heart disease detected less often in rural areas

By Erik L. Ridley

Ultrasound may be doing a better job overall of diagnosing critical congenital heart disease prenatally, but that's not necessarily the case in poorer and more rural communities, according to research presented on Monday at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in San Diego.

April 27, 2015

Motion-tracking MRI gives new insight into stroke risk

By Wayne Forrest

Using a novel motion-tracking MRI technique, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have uncovered new evidence that reduced function in the left atrium of the heart may be a sign of increased stroke risk in patients with or without atrial fibrillation.

April 26, 2015

Digisonics inks Okla. deal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image management firm Digisonics will implement its cardiovascular information system at Stillwater Medical Center in Stillwater, OK.

April 22, 2015

ARRS: Breast artery calcification predicts coronary calcium

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Researchers have discovered a "striking relationship" between breast artery and coronary artery calcification levels, according to a new study presented at this week's American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Toronto.

April 22, 2015

ARRS: Ungated CT calcium scores downgrade cardiac risk

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ungated CT plus Agatston calcium scoring is sufficient to clarify an individual's cardiac risk, usually reclassifying them downward compared to guidelines that aren't based on imaging exams, researchers reported at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Toronto.

April 22, 2015

ARRS: Fluid dynamics predict coronary plaques at CT

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Australian researchers are using a CT-based technique to analyze blood flow of the coronary arteries in 3D and profile flow changes to predict heart disease, according to a study to be presented at this week's American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Toronto.

April 19, 2015

Half of positive SPECT patients negative at CCTA

By Eric Barnes

Nearly half of all patients who test positive on SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging are found to be negative at coronary CT angiography (CCTA), calling into question the routine use of SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, a test that has been a mainstay of the diagnostic workup of patients with a clinical suspicion of coronary artery disease.

April 12, 2015

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