Cardiac Imaging: Page 70

Doctors often wrong about heart attack risks: study

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Your doctor may be wrong about your risk of suffering a heart attack, at least if you're Spanish, suggests a new study. Researchers found that a common method to calculate heart risks grossly overestimated the number of heart attacks in Spaniards, while a newer technique underestimated them.

September 12, 2011

ESC: Swiss group highlights cardiac MR's cost gains

By John Brosky

Abundant clinical evidence has emerged to support the use of cardiac MRI as a robust technique. New data presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress, held in Paris last week, may now help to convince insurers that it can advance into routine use.

September 6, 2011

AuntMinnieEurope.com Cardiac Imaging Insider

By Eric Barnes

September 5, 2011

ESC: MRI reveals mechanisms of cardiac disease

By John Brosky

PARIS - Cardiac MRI is struggling to win a role in routine clinical use, but emerging research shows it holds powerful potential for advancing cardiologists' understanding of heart disease, noted speakers at the recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress.

September 1, 2011

GE relaunches Optison in Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare's medical diagnostic division has announced the market reintroduction in Europe of Optison, a diagnostic ultrasound contrast agent.

August 31, 2011

ESC: Cardiac CT gains steadily against angiography

By John Brosky

PARIS - Angiography is invasive, costly, and too logistically cumbersome to be used as a diagnostic examination to rule out stenosis. That was the view of Dr. Stephan Achenbach, expressed in a heated debate during the European Society of Cardiology's (ESC) annual congress.

August 30, 2011

Heart valves and toasters: Call for new EU rules

By Reuters Health

PARIS (Reuters) - Pacemakers and electric toasters have little in common, yet in Europe the same regulatory framework covers both, and a growing number of doctors think the system is no longer up to the job. The issue has come to the fore at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress.

August 29, 2011

ESC: MRI shows balloon pumps don't reduce infarct size

By Wayne Forrest

Using MRI, researchers have found that intra-aortic balloon pump counterpulsation prior to percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction does not reduce infarct size, according to a study presented on Tuesday at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress in Paris.

August 29, 2011

Siemens highlights new Acuson SC 2000 version

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare is presenting version 2.0 of its Acuson SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) annual congress, being held in Paris from 27 to 31 August.

August 29, 2011

ESC: Cardiac MRI challenges SPECT in Paris debate

By John Brosky

PARIS - The new guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) are unequivocal in strongly recommending functional testing before any invasive procedure for myocardial revascularization. Yet the choice of a test is left to the cardiologist who faces conflicting evidence.

August 29, 2011

SuperSonic debuts UltraFast Doppler at WFUMB

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

French ultrasound technology firm SuperSonic Imagine has unveiled its new UltraFast Doppler technology at the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) congress in Vienna.

August 25, 2011

X-ray-guided procedures can have protective cellular effects

By Becky McCall

Chronic exposure to low-dose radiation may have clear biological and biochemical effects that represent a cellular protective response to harmful radiation, according to a paper published in this week's European Heart Journal that examined the impact of exposure on interventional cardiologists.

August 24, 2011

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