According to Merrill H. Stewart, MD, Ochsner Health, the test can more accurately identify high-risk patients while helping others avoid unnecessary invasive procedures. Cardiac positron emission ...

A nuclear stress test helps to assess your risk of a severe cardiac event. Depending on your health, a doctor may ask you to take a treadmill test or a chemical test, which uses medications to ...

A new television in the cardiology stress lab at Selkirk Regional Health Centre is helping make cardiac testing a little less ...

In November, The Lancet published an international expert consensus review, "Contemporary, non-invasive imaging diagnosis of chronic coronary artery disease," that shows using CT coronary angiography ...

The heart is an intricate plumbing system of valves, pumps and pipelike vessels which control the flow of blood throughout the body, and the doctors who specialize in its function, diagnosis and ...

There is a large degree of variability around the world in the amount of radiation used during diagnostic testing for coronary artery disease, a cross-sectional study shows. When comparing the same ...

Heart disease continues to be one of the leading health concerns in India, making timely diagnosis and expert treatment more important than ever.

UC San Francisco interventional cardiologists and interventional echocardiographers recently performed two novel minimally invasive cardiac procedures for the first time in the health system. Sammy ...