Yet over the past decade or so, coronary CT angiography has been gaining traction as the preferred imaging approach for the assessment of patients with chest ... with high-risk anatomy who would ...

Treatment of patients with acute chest ... invasive angiography. This concept is consistent with recent data suggesting that in a Medicare population, imaging of the coronary anatomy with CCTA ...

Like Murthy, he said knowledge of normal coronary anatomy on CT angiography could also ... a class I recommendation for the use of coronary CT angiography for evaluating patients with stable chest ...

Coronary artery computed tomography (CT) angiography (CTA) is a non-invasive technology that can directly image coronary artery anatomy ... the evaluation of acute chest pain.

The ROMICAT-II trial shows that CT coronary angiography is safe and fast for the exclusion of clinically significant obstructive coronary artery disease in low-risk patients with acute chest pain.

An analysis of diagnostic test results from the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE ... artery disease detected by CT angiography better predicted the ...

HERSHEY, PA — A new meta-analysis shows that use of coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA ... with suspected CAD and acute or stable chest pain [1]. CTA, however, is also associated ...

In FORECAST, up-front use of CT-derived FFR in patients with new-onset chest pain did not translate ... provides no overall advantage over angiography alone, said Curzen. Citing the results from ...

Long-term outcomes after CT or invasive coronary angiography to diagnose CAD were similar, with comparable improvement in most quality of life measures and angina symptoms, researchers reported. Minor ...

Although coronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA) improves diagnostic certainty in the assessment of patients with stable chest pain, its effect on 5-year clinical outcomes is unknown.

(HealthDay News) — For patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), computed tomography (CT) pulmonary angiography is superior to chest radiography for providing a diagnosis, even when no PE ...

In November, Susan Nichols started having classic heart attack symptoms, including chest pains and shortness of breath ... Dr. Ryan Masters suggested she get a coronary CT angiogram done. "(It's) less ...