Sudden cardiac arrest is a major cause of death predominantly caused by ventricular tachyarrhythmia in patients with coronary artery disease. Despite advancements in resuscitation care, the rate of ...

SELECTIVE coronary angiography has become an invaluable means of distinguishing syndromes due to coronary-artery disease from those arising from other causes. Though much speculation has been made ...

Patients with suspected CAD whose risk level makes them clear candidates for invasive coronary angiography (ICA) can be safely and effectively treated using a selective referral strategy that employs ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The TOMAHAWK trial included 554 patients (median age, 70 years; 30% women) with resuscitated out-of-hospital ...

ROME, ITALY — Outcomes are similar and pocketbooks spared if computed-tomography angiography (CTA) is used to guide the use of invasive coronary angiography in stable patients with suspected CAD, ...

(UPDATED) Rushing resuscitated cardiac arrest patients swiftly to coronary angiography as opposed to taking a more selective or delayed approach doesn’t save lives or improve neurologic outcomes, the ...

Selective referrals of coronary CTA were determined to be a more efficient and accurate method in guiding decisions of invasive coronary angiography for suspected CAD vs. a direct referral strategy, ...

For most resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, rushing to angiography was no help for subsequent survival and in fact produced numerically worse outcomes, the TOMAHAWK trial ...

"Nowadays it takes longer time to order a caffe latte at the nearby Starbucks than to get a cardiac CT" --Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD, Stanford University Medical Center (Stanford, California) The ...

An angiogram is a medical procedure of detecting blockage in the arterial system using a special contrast material and x-ray imaging system. An angiogram, also called coronary angiography, is a part ...

Patients with chest pain are recognized as being at high risk of subsequent adverse cardiac events when their plasma levels of cardiac troponin are elevated as evidence of myocardial damage. Based on ...

Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...