MIAMI, FL — Use of coronary angiography and PCI after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) increased significantly over a 13-year period, according to new research [1]. However, "a significant ...

Our heart works continuously, pumping blood throughout the body and keeping us alive. When the heart functions properly, we ...

After controlling for known CV risk factors, all FFR-CT subgroups remained significantly associated with MI, ...

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze electrocardiograms (ECG) improved detection of severe heart attacks, including those that presented with unconventional symptoms, or atypical ECG patterns ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My mom was just admitted to the hospital with chest pressure. She had just lost her husband of 62 years last week, and she initially thought this was just stress. They said she might ...

Chest pain may still be angina even when coronary angiogram testing shows the main heart arteries look clear. Using stress cardiac stress MRI testing to measure blood flow around the heart appears to ...

After years of declining reimbursement, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed an increase in the amount paid to hospitals and outpatient clinics for cardiac computed ...

In patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided implantation of a drug-eluting stent improved outcomes compared with angiography guidance alone. "Our study ...

The disparate cutoffs may help determine whether a patient should go to the cath lab. Prospective validation comes next.