TORRANCE, CA — The insights provided by coronary CT angiography (CCTA) are similar to what is available from quantitative coronary angiography (QCA), suggests a prospective comparative study that gave ...

The role of cardiac computed tomography in cardiovascular risk stratification remains a point of some debate. Litt and colleagues (2012) constructed a randomized, controlled study at five sites ...

BOSTON, MA—Adjunctive coronary CT angiography (CCTA) prior to invasive coronary angiography in patients who’ve had prior CABG shortens procedure duration, improves patient satisfaction, and lowers ...

Both invasive coronary angiography and coronary CT angiography (CCTA) add incremental information over baseline characteristics when predicting risk in stable CAD patients, according to an ISCHEMIA ...

Six million people each year in the US go to the emergency department (ED) with acute chest pain. Although only 10-15% of them turn out to have an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), most are admitted to ...

Computed tomography angiography is as accurate as an invasive angiogram in detecting coronary artery disease, according to findings from the first two prospective multicenter 64-slice scanner trials.

After controlling for known CV risk factors, all FFR-CT subgroups remained significantly associated with MI, ...

“CT coronary angiography is a non invasive, painless, fast, OPD basis examination of coronary arteries with the help of fast multi slice CT scanner (16 slice Somatom Sensation Cardiac CT scanner).

(HealthDay News) – Incorporating coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) into evaluation of patients presenting to the emergency department with acute coronary syndrome symptoms improves the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Screening for CAD by coronary computed tomography angiography did not reduce the composite rate of all ...

Nov. 20 -- THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Compared to standard emergency room triage, CT angiography is quicker, more accurate and much less expensive for screening patients with chest pain who ...