1. GE Announces New Compatibility for FFR Evaluation
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

... Pressure Guide Wire for evaluation of Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR). Coronary heart disease caused 425,425 deaths in 2006 and is the single leading cause of death in America today1. It is caused by atherosclerosis, ...

2. Intermountain Healthcare - Toshiba Announce faCTor64 Substudy
(Company News/Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation)

... with many diabetics experiencing their first “symptom” as a heart attack or sudden death. Understanding that diabetics are at high risk for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and that many with the disease are ...

3. MUSC, First To Test CT Detects CAD
(Communities/CT)

... has potential to evolve into a standalone method for imaging all aspects of coronary heart disease. Radiologists and cardiologists from MUSC, led by Joseph Schoepf, MD, professor of radiology and medicine ...

4. Plaque Composition Differences Using Multidetector CTA
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

... (23% vs 28%; p<0.001) in women than in men. The same differences were seen in all age groups.  Multivariate-adjusted analysis accounting for age and coronary heart disease risk factors showed that ...

5. MDCE Completes Tele-Health Suite For CHF
(Healthcare Informatics/Healthcare Informatics)

... by the Department of Community and Family Medicine, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Chinese University of Hong Kong found that coronary heart disease (CHD) is the second leading cause ...

6. London's ESC Launches Aquilion ONE CT
(Communities/CT)

... Medical Director at the ESC predicts that advances in technology like these, will change the way the medical profession diagnose and treat coronary heart disease: “We have access to the best CT imaging ...

7. ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... that treat specific themes involving theory and practice of cardiac imaging and its clinical use in all major cardiovascular diseases from coronary heart disease to cardiomyopathies. The textbook which ...

8. Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Judging Method Evaluated
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... and management of patients with coronary heart disease. The most efficient use of noninvasive testing involves matching the right test to the right patient. The rapid rate of growth of cardiac imaging ...

9. Diagnosis with Intra Vascular Ultrasound
(Communities/Ultrasound)

Intra Vascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Imaging to Play a Key Role in Increasing Clinical Success of Interventional Cardiology. Angiography is the most widely used technique for diagnosis of coronary heart disease. ...

10. Cardiovascular Outcomes With Ezetimibe/Simvastatin Combination
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... used standard statistical tools to adjust for demographics, medical history, and coronary heart disease medication use. Source: AHA You can discuss more about Cardiology and related topics in our Cardiology ...

11. Intra Vascular Ultrasound Imaging Plays a Key Role in Interventional Cardiology
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... for diagnosis of coronary heart disease. Angiography reliably identifies luminal dimension of the epicardial tree with high resolution and remains vital for detecting severely stenotic coronary lesions. ...

12. InforSense Used by Celera to Further Investigate Genetic Markers for Coronary Heart Disease
(Company News/InforSense Ltd)

... molecular and public data sources to accelerate the successful identification of genetic markers, such as those Celera has reported for increased risk of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). The InforSense Translational ...

13. GE Healthcare and Archimedes, Inc. to Collaborate on Study for Early Diagnosis of Coronary Heart Disease
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

GE Healthcare and Archimedes, Inc. announced a collaboration to launch an exciting new virtual study to identify an enhanced diagnostic protocol for predicting coronary heart disease (CHD). GE Healthcare ...

14. New initiative to promote awareness of imaging to diagnose CAD in women
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

Society for Women's Health Research and MITA Promote Greater Awareness of Medical Imaging to Diagnose Women's Coronary Artery Disease With coronary heart disease the leading cause of death in ...

15. GE says CT scan has clearer images, cuts radiation
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

A new high-definition CT scanner from GE Healthcare is producing clearer images of the body's internal organs, bones and soft tissue while reducing potentially cancer-causing radiation exposure compared ...

16. Lifestyle choices and heart risks
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... the prevalence of aspirin resistance during low dose aspirin therapy Coronary heart disease deaths are often caused by platelets sticking together and forming blood clots (thrombosis) that limit blood ...

17. IMS updated recommendations on postmenopausal hormone therapy
(Imported/Imported)

... faced a major turning point when the first data from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trial were released. The study was categorized as a primary prevention trial for coronary heart disease, although ...

18. 3D fusion: a better way to image heart disease
(Imported/Imported)

... muscle is reduced, and, because blood carries much-needed oxygen, the heart muscle is not able to receive the amount of oxygen it needs. About seven million Americans suffer from coronary heart disease, ...

19. UT study reveals inaccuracies in cardiac PET-CT imaging - and finds solution
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... have been proven to have comparable false positive results for different reasons. ‘Pure’ PET or PET-CT done properly are the best non-invasive tests for early coronary heart disease or for assessing its ...

20. High-tech CT scans: not a bad choice to test for clogged arteries
(Communities/CT)

... its Heart Institute. The latest estimates from the AHA show that one in five deaths in the United States each year is due to coronary heart disease (653,000 deaths in 2004), including 157,000 who die from ...