SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - You have probably heard of a stress test to determine any issues with your heart. However, here's another test that doctors say can give patients more ease of mind, and still ...

I remember with sadness the 78-year-old woman who, despite no symptoms of coronary artery disease, was persuaded by an advertisement to have a heart saver CT scan of the heart. This led to open heart ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stress tests are a thing of the past. Make way for coronary CT angiography. Wide-eyed medical students might ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The recently introduced Coronary Artery Disease-Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS), used to standardize reporting of findings from coronary CT angiograms, was validated by ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although the lifetime risk of cancer associated with exposure to radiation from computerize tomographic (CT) coronary angiography is "non-negligible," the risk varies ...

New UK recommendations for the assessment of chest pain are prioritizing the use of CT angiography in cases where a diagnosis of stable angina cannot be excluded on the basis of a clinical assessment ...

The $1.5 billion health-tech startup HeartFlow has a noninvasive test for coronary artery disease based on machine learning analysis of CT scans of the heart. It also has a large pile of money to run ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Using a heart scan in the emergency room to rule out heart attacks and other problems in low-risk patients with chest pain can save hospitals billions of dollars, researchers said ...

New York, NY - Cardiologists and emergency department (ED) physicians faced with a young woman complaining of chest pain may want to choose a diagnostic test other than cardiac CT angiography (CTA), ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Coronary CTA is as useful as direct invasive coronary angiography when evaluating stable chest pain. Coronary CT ...

A new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that radiation from a high-resolution cardiac CT scan—the newest, noninvasive test for detecting heart disease—may ...