Rick Snyder, MD, president of the Cardiac PET Alliance, says PET offers better images than SPECT and is associated with much ...

Angiography mainly shows the silhouette of the artery, while tests such as intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical ...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is increasingly recognised as an important cause of acute coronary syndrome, particularly ...

A CT-based study of 62 patients found that coronary blood flow measurements decline after transcatheter aortic valve ...

A heart attack, medically known as an acute myocardial infarction, occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is ...

Chest pain is often associated with narrowed or blocked coronary arteries, which can restrict blood flow to the heart.

A pilot study from the University of Bern shows that computational fluid dynamics built from routine CT angiography and ...

Cardiologists explain when angioplasty can be life-saving, when medicines may be enough and why finding a blockage does not ...

A myocardial bridge occurs when a section of a coronary artery runs beneath heart muscle instead of along its surface. Most myocardial bridges cause no symptoms. For some people, the muscle can ...

Traditionally, the interventional cardiologist first visualizes the coronary anatomy in detail when contrast is injected in the catheterization laboratory. For many patients, however, that anatomy has ...

The diagnostic value of coronary computed tomography angiography–derived fractional flow reserve (FFR-CT) in stable coronary artery disease is well established. The prognostic value of predicting ...

Though Klein had experienced symptoms since childhood, many patients with ACA are asymptomatic until they have a sudden ...