New UK recommendations for the assessment of chest pain are prioritizing the use of CT angiography in cases where a diagnosis of stable angina cannot be excluded on the basis of a clinical assessment ...

Long-term quality of life and symptoms are similar in patients with chest pain regardless of whether they’re first evaluated by computed tomography (CT) or by invasive coronary angiography (ICA), ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A “CT first” strategy was tied to higher revascularization rates vs. other tests for chest pain. CABG or PCI was ...

For people with stable chest pain and an intermediate pretest probability of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), an initial CT strategy fared similarly to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) ...

Noninvasive coronary angiography has been the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine for decades. Cardiac CT angiography obtained with multislice CT technology is finally reaching the high standard in ...

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 ...

For decades, a clean coronary angiogram has been considered reassuring, almost synonymous with a healthy heart. But cardiologists are now warning that this assumption can be dangerously misleading. A ...

The number of people dying from cardiovascular disease (CVD) is rapidly rising in the country. Thus, it is the need of the hour to seek timely diagnosis and intervention. In the below article, we help ...

Backround A 40-year-old woman presented with dyspnea in the fifth month of pregnancy followed by a sudden onset of pleuritic chest pain 2 weeks postpartum. She was diagnosed as having pulmonary ...

For decades, the coronary angiogram has been considered the gold standard for detecting blocked arteries that cause a heart attack. When patients are told their angiogram is “normal”, it often brings ...