Cardiovascular Radiology: Page 90

Quantitative stress echo can reliably find coronary artery disease

By Erik L. Ridley

Quantitative stress echocardiography with contrast-based myocardial blood flow measurements can successfully detect coronary artery disease, according to research published online in Heart.

August 17, 2008

Liver fat a key determinant of 'metabolically benign obesity'

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 12 - Close to one-third of obese individuals are "metabolically healthy" and at low risk for heart disease, whereas a quarter of normal-weight individuals are metabolically abnormal with numerous cardiac risk factors, according to two reports in the August 11/25 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

August 11, 2008

Siemens completes Northampton installations

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has installed its Artis zee cardiac angiography system and its Somatom Definition AS CT scanner at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust in the U.K.

August 11, 2008

Cyclosporine during MI may limit reperfusion injury

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 4 - Administration of cyclosporine at the time of percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) appears to limit the size of the infarct, according to results of a small randomized trial in France.

August 3, 2008

GE moves Optison agent through EU regulation

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has withdrawn the marketing authorization for GE Healthcare's Optison ultrasound contrast agent, a move that the company said is a routine part of the firm's effort to renew regulatory approval for the product.

July 22, 2008

Direct emergency admission to catheterization lab reduces time to intervention

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 23 - Direct ambulance admission to the cardiac catheterization laboratory significantly reduces the time to performance of primary percutaneous intervention, according to a report in the June issue of the American Heart Journal.

July 22, 2008

Increased carotid distension an independent predictor of coronary events

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 17 - B-mode ultrasonography is a simple, noninvasive way to assess carotid distension, which is an independent predictor of coronary heart disease (CHD) in the elderly, French researchers report.

July 16, 2008

Study: Heart scan radiation dose lower with dual-source CT

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A new study from the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland has found that dual-source CT achieves a lower effective radiation dosage for a heart examination than conventional CT.

July 16, 2008

BMI installs Siemens 128-slice CT

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

BMI-The London Independent Hospital in the U.K. has installed a 128-slice Somatom Definition AS+ CT scanner from Siemens Healthcare.

July 16, 2008

Routine clopidogrel before angiography no advantage in subsequent PCI

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 16 - In patients with stable angina who might be candidates for percutaneous coronary intervention, there appears to be no benefit to clopidogrel pretreatment before they undergo elective angiography. In fact, it may increase minor bleeding complications, according to Czech researchers.

July 15, 2008

New algorithm sharpens coronary artery images

By Eric Barnes

Researchers at the recent Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting in Barcelona, Spain, presented new work that aims to simplify the difficult task of evaluating coronary artery images.

July 13, 2008

Global RV function on ECG-gated 64-slice MDCT compares well with MRI

By Radiology Review

(Radiology Review) Cardiac MDCT angiography for assessing coronary artery disease and coronary bypass grafts has enabled right ventricular (RV) function assessment, according to a study in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

July 3, 2008

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