A normal coronary angiogram does not always guarantee safety from a heart attack. Conditions like microvascular disease, ...
TORONTO, ON — New data from Ontario show that almost 42% of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) who underwent a diagnostic angiogram within a 17-hospital network were found to have ...
WASHINGTON, DC — Yet another study, this one investigating the VA healthcare system in the US, has found wide variations between hospitals in terms of how many of the angiograms they perform turn up ...
(HealthDay)—Patients with normal or near-normal coronary angiogram (CA) results at age 65 years or older have significantly longer survival than the general population, according to a study published ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stress tests are a thing of the past. Make way for coronary CT angiography. Wide-eyed medical students might ...
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 ...
Cardiac syndrome X, a special subform of non-cardiac chest pain with abnormal electrocardiographic but normal coronary angiogram, originates mostly from disorders of the esophagus and stomach. A ...
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Elective coronography has low diagnostic yield for obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). We aim to determine whether non-invasive aortic stiffness assessment improves diagnostic accuracy of CAD ...
However, the results of his coronary angiography were normal, He and colleagues wrote. Echocardiography was performed immediately after the angiography exam, and it showed no noteworthy wall motion ...
A growing body of evidence shows that heart attacks can occur even when angiograms look normal. Cardiologists explain MINOCA, ...