By Dr Divya Renu Several celebrities and achievers have recently passed away due to heart attacks or cardiac arrests at ...

What is cardiac CT angiography? A cardiac CT angiogram is a test that essentially conducts "a CAT scan for the heart," said Dr. Aeshita Dwivedi, a cardiologist at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital ...

That's it. About 2 minutes of a CT scan. The technician and doctor can give me a score of how much calcium deposits they see inside the arteries of my heart.

Since 2020, Norton cardiologists have been providing FFR-CT scan, which stands for fractional flow reserve computed tomography. The FFR-CT is a non-invasive three-dimensional scan that can show blood ...

"Sci-fi-like" 3D heart scans have saved the NHS an estimated £9.5 million since their rollout in 2021, data shows. The technology cuts the needs for invasive tests and speeds up diagnosis by ...

May 24, 2023 / 5:33 PM EDT / CBS Boston ... BOSTON - A common imaging scan may be better at gauging your risk for heart disease than your underlying genetics. This came as a surprise to researchers.

CT scans of the heart have become more common in recent years. They are accurate tools to diagnose plaque in arteries leading to the heart, but the scans are not without risk.

CT scans are better at predicting a middle-aged person’s risk for a heart disease, such as a heart attack, than genetics, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. Conventional measures of risk ...

Date: August 6, 2020 Source: Aarhus University Summary: Researchers have succeeded in developing a dynamic 3D CT scanning method that shows what happens inside the body during simulated heart massage.

That's because CT scans led to more follow-up tests and treatments, even though the burden of disease was about the same; 8 percent of both groups turned out to have heart disease and only 5 of ...

The primary endpoint was the number of patients in whom a clot was detected. This was 1.7% of patients in the standard CTA group vs 8.8% in the extended CTA, giving an odds ratio of 5.7 (95% CI, 1 ...