To study the impact on healthcare resource utilization, researchers analyzed the proportion of normal findings among patients undergoing invasive angiography at the University of Ottawa Heart ...

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 ...

Current clinical care patterns document the tendency to disregard patients with “normal” or nonobstructive coronary angiography who are predominantly women in the setting of chest pain symptoms. New ...

Image shows examples of whole-body angiograms. A, Normal study with no disease evident in a 45-year-old woman. B, Evidence of extensive disease including left carotid bulb stenosis (black arrow), ...

In 15 patients with definite angiographic evidence of embolism involving both lungs, and treated with heparin or venous ligation or both, sequential studies showed only minimal angiographic and ...

A blood-based gene expression test developed to aid in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) has now been prospectively validated in the multicenter PREDICT trial. According to Dr Eric Topol, ...