Cardiovascular Radiology: Page 37

CT breaks new ground in assessing heart valves

By Philip Ward

Third-generation dual-source CT scanners can now provide fast, comprehensive, and complementary information in the evaluation of mechanical heart valves, award-winning Dutch researchers reported at last month's RSNA meeting in Chicago.

January 4, 2016

Support grows for screening for Chagas disease

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Latin American migrants in Spain should be screened for Chagas disease, particularly women before pregnancy, using transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE), ECG, and MRI if results are abnormal, according to research presented at the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging annual meeting, held last week in Seville, Spain.

December 7, 2015

MRI shows how heart changes during deep dives

By Wayne Forrest

CHICAGO - Cardiac MRI has uncovered the unusual ability of free divers -- who descend hundreds of feet into the ocean while holding their breath -- to develop "compensatory mechanisms" to recover heart function within minutes of breathing again.

December 1, 2015

Germans get star billing at RSNA with vast MRI study

By Philip Ward

Taking a broader approach to research, combined with much closer collaboration between radiologists and epidemiologists, can contribute to better patient care and disease prevention, according to speakers from Germany at a special session held at RSNA 2015 on Monday.

November 30, 2015

Germans gear up for plenary session at RSNA 2015

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The German Radiological Society will present several lectures at RSNA 2015 during a special "Germany presents at RSNA" session.

November 16, 2015

Socioeconomic status weighs heavily in cardiac risk

By Eric Barnes

Germans of lower socioeconomic status have more than twice the risk of developing cardiovascular disease than the better-off -- and the differences may have widened in recent years, according to new research from the 2015 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in London.

November 16, 2015

AuntMinnieEurope.com Cardiac Imaging Insider

By Eric Barnes

November 15, 2015

Rubidium PET/CT reveals vascular problems in diabetes patients

By Eric Barnes

Danish researchers have found high rates of microvascular disease using PET/CT with a rubidium radiopharmaceutical in diabetes patients without symptoms of heart disease. The disease was exacerbated in the setting of albuminuria, a common condition in these patients, according to a new study in Diabetologia.

November 15, 2015

Combined cardiac catheter treats and monitors

By Cynthia E. Keen

A proof-of-concept experiment with a combined high-intensity focused ultrasound and local harmonic motion imaging catheter has shown that the minimally invasive catheter can function as a therapeutic and monitoring tool for cardiac ablation, Canadian researchers found.

November 15, 2015

Italians pinpoint coronary plaque rupture risks

By Eric Barnes

Coronary plaque rupture and thin-cap fibroatheroma are common in patients with coronary artery disease, for whom clinical factors and bad habits like smoking increase the risk even more, according to an Italian meta-analysis in the European Heart Journal -- Cardiovascular Imaging.

November 12, 2015

Shimadzu launches new angiography application

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Shimadzu has released a new angiography application designed to reduce treatment times and the amount of contrast media used.

November 5, 2015

How to cut dose if you lack iterative reconstruction

By Philip Ward

Iterative reconstruction is fast becoming the magic bullet for CT dose reduction, but if you have an older CT scanner without this function, what can you do? Adjusting the scanning range of CT pulmonary angiography cuts dose by 24% and is safe, with a low recall rate, U.K. researchers have reported.

October 29, 2015

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