The influence of echocardiography on the number of cardiac catheterizations(CC) performed prior to cardiac surgery was assessed in a retrospective analysis comparing two 12 month periods(Jan.

Just a few years ago, the diagnosis would have involved a cardiac cath procedure, which can take an hour or more, compared to the CT scanner's five minutes. Cardiac cath is still the better test ...

Operator experience per se is not necessarily associated with a decrease of the radiation dose per procedure ... A diagnostic cine run should in most cases only last for one cardiac cyclus.

Following cardiac catheterization, patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have a higher risk of short-term mortality than patients with non-STEMI (NSTEMI), who have a ...

Electrophysiology diagnostic catheters are used to detect and manage arrhythmias, irregular heart rhythms commonly associated ...

A new technology that allows doctors to quantify blood flow in the heart can improve their ability to diagnose potentially ...

TCAI is the first to use Medtronic’s Affera mapping and ablation system with a Sphere-9 catheter since it received FDA ...