Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

Transradial access (TRA) results in a lower diagnostic success rate and longer procedural times compared with transfemoral access (TFA) in patients undergoing cerebral angiography, the randomized ...

A transradial approach (TRA) for cerebral angiography was less effective than the transfemoral route in achieving an accurate diagnostic success rate. Study investigator, Wei Ni, MD, Huashan Hospital, ...

Every year, innovations in medical technology make it easier and more affordable for patients to access state-of-the-art health care. Procedures that once required months of waiting for hospital ...

New insights from the AI-ENCODE study showed artificial intelligence (AI) successfully allowed the automated extraction of key functional and physiological data from routine angiograms. The ...

What Imaging Modalities Are Available to Radiologists & How Do They Differ? A wide range of imaging modalities including planar imaging, computed tomography (CT), MRI, ultrasound and newer techniques ...

Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of adult death worldwide. An x-ray imaging test, called a coronary angiography, provides the clinical standard diagnostic assessment for nearly all heart ...

Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...

For decades, a clean coronary angiogram has been considered reassuring, almost synonymous with a healthy heart. But cardiologists are now warning that this assumption can be dangerously misleading. A ...