Cardiac Imaging: Page 33

Guidelines issued for imaging prosthetic heart valves

By Eric Barnes

New guidelines for multimodality imaging and diagnosis of prosthetic heart valves have been issued by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.

May 3, 2016

ESTRO: Lung cancer radiotherapy linked to noncancer deaths

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Treating patients who have early-stage non-small cell lung cancer with stereotactic body radiation therapy is associated with a small but increased risk of death from causes other than cancer, according to research presented at the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) conference.

May 3, 2016

Visceral fat tied to coronary disease

By Eric Barnes

When it comes to the risk of coronary artery disease, not all fat is created equal, say Hungarian researchers. They found that at least one type of visceral fat correlates with the presence of coronary artery disease.

May 3, 2016

CCTA falls short in detecting culprit plaque

By Eric Barnes

In a population of myocardial infarction patients spanning 10 years of clinical practice, coronary CT angiography (CCTA) showed only limited ability to detect culprit lesions in the coronary arteries that went on to cause heart attacks -- though its positive predictive value was perfect, researchers concluded.

April 20, 2016

U.K. launches massive scanning project

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A U.K. research organization said it has launched a large study across the country that will involve scanning more than 100,000 participants to transform the way medicine looks at a wide variety of diseases including dementia, arthritis, cancer, heart attacks, and stroke.

April 17, 2016

Cardiac cath radiation exacts toll on health personnel

By Brian Casey

Radiation from cardiac catheterization procedures is taking a heavy toll on cath lab personnel, according to a new study published April 12 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. Italian researchers found higher rates of orthopedic problems, cataracts, skin lesions, and even anxiety and depression in cath lab workers.

April 13, 2016

European heart group cancels Turkey meeting

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation has canceled its annual EuroPRevent meeting scheduled to take place in Turkey next month due to safety concerns.

April 12, 2016

AuntMinnieEurope.com Cardiac Imaging Insider

By Eric Barnes

April 11, 2016

CCTA halves adverse events in SCOT-HEART trial

By Eric Barnes

A trial comparing the use of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) to standard care alone in more than 4,000 chest pain patients revealed sharply reduced event rates and fewer negative angiographies when CCTA was used to guide patient management, according to results published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

April 11, 2016

MRI rules out competing diagnoses in ARVC/D

By Eric Barnes

Cardiac MRI (CMR) can diagnose arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) where other modalities fail, and it can even identify conditions that mimic the disease -- good news considering that timely treatment can often prevent sudden cardiac death.

April 10, 2016

Echo groups update LV diastolic function guideline

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

New recommendations for evaluating left ventricular (LV) diastolic function with echocardiography have been released by the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.

March 29, 2016

Swedish group finds unstable plaques with ultrasound

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A research team from Lund University in Sweden has developed an ultrasound-based method for detecting unstable plaques in the carotid artery, potentially adding a new tool in the fight for earlier detection of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke.

March 23, 2016

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