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

... of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (updating the 2004 guideline and 2007 focused update) and ACC/AHA/SCAI guidelines on percutaneous coronary intervention (updating the 2005 guideline ...

2. Acc.10: Philips Simplifies Cardiology Care
(Company News/Philips Healthcare)

... ECG algorithm.  Additionally, it includes advanced ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) decision-support tools, as well as updated gender, age, and lead-specific STEMI criteria that ...

3. Siemens' Commitment to Excellence in Cardiology: ACC10
(Company News/Siemens Healthcare)

... Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission. For cardiologists, Soarian Quality Measures automatically abstracts and presents the relevant evidence from the two heart related CMS topics: Acute Myocardial Infarction ...

4. Benefit for Early Eptifibatide Presents at ACC
(Radiology Conferences/Conference News)

Benefit for Early Eptifibatide, Clopidogrel in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome to be Presented at 59th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). In patients with ...

5. InfraReDx's LipiScan at ACC Meeting
(Company News/InfraReDx)

... of Large Lipid Core Plaque Detected by Near Infrared Spectroscopy with Post Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Myocardial Infarction Presenter: Brijeshwar S. Maini, M.D., F.A.C.C, co-chair cardiovascular ...

6. MPO Predicts Death Risk With Coronary Angiography
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

... L. Heslop, of St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues analyzed data from 885 selective coronary angiography patients who had stable angina, earlier myocardial infarction, aortic stenosis ...

7. Demonstration on Acute Aortic Syndrome: ECR10
(Radiology Conferences/ECR 2010)

... acute aortic syndrome, a life threatening disease in which patients present with symptoms mimicking myocardial infarction. Imaging modalities help to determine what may be causing pain in the chest. However, ...

8. InfraReDx Exhibits at LUMEN 2010
(Company News/InfraReDx)

... exhibiting at LUMEN 2010 InfraReDx , Inc., announced that the Company will be exhibiting at LUMEN 2010, the world's premier ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) meeting, to be held February 25-27, ...

9. Review : CMR in Patients With MI
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

The role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging ( CMR ) in patients with acute and chronic myocardial infarction (MI) was reviewed by American College of Cardiology. According to the review, MI is a leading ...

10. MDCT Predicts Results Following Stenting
(Communities/CT)

... plaque based on CT density. "The procedure-related myocardial infarction is a major roadblock to improving clinical outcomes in patients who undergo PCI. Plaque evaluation by MDCT may provide useful information ...

11. Association Between CT Angiography & Myocardial Infarction
(Cardiology/Cardiology)

The association between plaque characterization by CT angiography and post-procedural myocardial infarction in patients with elective stent implantation was found out through a study. For the study, a ...

12. T2-Weighted MRI For Detecting Myocardial edema
(Communities/MRI)

... imaging ( MRI ) pulse sequences have been used to detect edema in patients with acute myocardial infarction and differentiate acute from chronic infarction. T2W sequences have suffered from several problems ...

13. Eclipsys Integrated Pharmacy Solution at No. 4
(Company News/Eclipsys Corporation)

... No. 1 in adherence to surgery CMS criteria, while statistically tying in adherence to heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and pneumonia. In addition, Eclipsys clinical information systems ...

14. American College of Cardiology Certifies LUMEDX
(Organizations/American College Of Radiology)

... Registry-GWTG is a unified registry collecting data for patients with acute myocardial infarction. LUMEDX’s Export to ACTION Registry-GWTG solution collects data at the point of care and submits it electronically ...

15. Harvard researchers Say Health IT are Baseless
(Healthcare Informatics/Healthcare Informatics)

...  Modest quality gains were noted in the treatment of heart attacks (acute myocardial infarction) in more-computerized hospitals, but even these small improvements may merely represent better documentation ...

16. Coronary Calcium Scoring Guides Cardiac Test Selection
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

Coronary artery calcium scanning finds the risk of myocardial infarction and sudden death accurately enough to guide the selection of diagnostic tests for symptomatic patients. Coronary artery calcium ...

17. VIVA 2009 Late-Breaking Trials
(Radiology Conferences/VIVA 2009)

... overall. There were no myocardial infarctions. There was a 0.9% death rate for ITT patients and 0.8% overall. The stroke rates were 2.3% for ITT patients and 1.9% overall. The MACCE rates were 1.5% for ...

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

... and Medicare clients. They analysed cohort data retrospectively comparing relative rates of clinical events (hospitalisation for myocardial infarction [MI] or stroke) among patients aged 18 to 84 years ...

19. CT Angiography Indicates Coronary Plaque Progression
(Communities/CT)

... CT angiography in 69 patients originally enrolled in the Rule Out Myocardial Infarction Using Computer Assisted Tomography (ROMICAT) trial, previously reported by heartwire. Atherosclerotic plaque burden ...

20. Eclipsys Supports Healthcare Providers to Attain The Goal of ARRA
(Healthcare Informatics/Healthcare Informatics)

... myocardial infarction (AMI) and pneumonia. Industry CPOE Adoption Leadership A key provision of ARRA is that healthcare organizations must drive the use of information technology to improve patient ...