Angiography mainly shows the silhouette of the artery, while tests such as intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) allow doctors to see the artery from the inside.

Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, yet many people still misunderstand one of the most commonly performed cardiac procedures: angiography. According to experts, this ...

A protocol of immediate angiography provided no mortality benefit over a strategy or delayed or more selective angiography among patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and without ...

A speedy trip to the cath lab for coronary angiography is not linked to better outcomes in patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest but do not have ST-segment elevation on an initial ECG, ...

MUNICH — Adding CT coronary angiography (CTCA) to standard care in patients with stable chest pain leads to a significant reduction in rates of death from coronary heart disease (CHD) or nonfatal ...

DALLAS, March 17, 2021 — Immediate angiography, rather than the standard computed tomography (CT scan), reduced stroke treatment time and was linked to improved recovery, according to late-breaking ...

DALLAS, – High-resolution magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) may offer a risk-free way to identify narrowed vein grafts after bypass surgery, according to a report in today’s Circulation: Journal of ...

An analysis of 236,432 cardiac CT examinations from a European registry shows academic and non-academic centers diverged ...

One of the situations I come across in cardiac practice is a woman with chest discomfort, breathlessness, or unusual fatigue who undergoes an angiogram and is told that her coronary arteries are clear ...

A retrospective study of 357 coronary angiograms from three Sudanese cardiac centers found that women had longer, more ...

When Chris Abrunzo was in his early 20s, his father was struck by the kind of heart attack known as a "widow maker." The severe cardiac events are often fatal, and while Abrunzo's father survived, it ...

Union Health Minister JP Nadda was admitted to AIIMS Delhi after experiencing uneasiness, with the hospital confirming that he underwent a coronary angiography on the evening of August 13. According ...