CVCTA Education Announces New LOW DOSE Initiative for CT Angiograms

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 /PRNewswire/-- CVCTA Education, the leader in physician education for cardiac CT imaging, has introduced a new education program that helps physicians reduce the radiation dose to patients during a CT Angiogram (CTA). When properly performed, radiation doses during CTA ...

64-slice CT: Most dose efficient for evaluating pregnant patients with possible pulmonary emboli

...ways going to be at a greater risk both for PE and symptoms closely mimicking PE, so we will probably continue to do a significant number of pulmonary angiograms on these patients. These patients really need definitive diagnosis and CT has shown to be the most accurate test at the most reasonable radiation expo...

Society for Women's Health Research and MITA Promote Greater Awareness of Medical Imaging to Diagnose Women's Coronary Artery Disease

...ed lives, reduced hospital stays, returned people to work more quickly, kept families together and significantly lowered health care costs. While angiograms -- an invasive procedure that involves inserting a guide wire and catheter into the groin -- is the most common means of diagnosing heart disease, non...

Noninvasive screening test may detect narrowing in intracranial stents

...r stent placement and a follow-up diagnostic angiography study performed within one month of the QMRA scan. An interventional neurologist reviewed all angiograms for presence of greater than 50 percent in-stent stenosis. The study found that low blood flow as measured by QMRA at sites of intracranial stent ...

WVU study demonstrates efficacy of CT perfusion in diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke

...y still. Most hospitals need only to buy software (at a relatively low cost) to upgrade their systems and institute training programs. In addition, CT angiograms are necessary to locate blockages and these can be done simultaneously with the perfusion CT, saving valuable time. With the publication of this ...

New System Devised To Guide Doctors Treating Patients With Symptomatic Myocardial Bridging

...n-invasive tests, such as EKGs,exercise stress tests or nuclear SPECT scans (Thallium 201 scintigraphy in single photon emission computer tomography), angiograms and invasive tests measuring different hemodynamic parameters using microtransducers within the arteries of the heart. They found that clinical s...

New system devised to guide doctors treating patients with symptomatic myocardial bridging

...-invasive tests, such as EKGs, exercise stress tests or nuclear SPECT scans (Thallium 201 scintigraphy in single photon emission computer tomography), angiograms and invasive tests measuring different hemodynamic parameters using microtransducers within the arteries of the heart. They found that clinical sy...

Women and heart attack: Study finds failure to recognize symptoms, failure to treat appropriately

...during a heart attack, and the tests and treatments they receive during or after an attack. The lack of serious blockages, or obstructions, on the angiograms of many women heart attack patients has led experts to suspect that women may have blockages in smaller blood vessels that cant be seen on conventiona...

NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia physician-scientists present at ACC's 57th Annual Scientific Session

...ons. He is founder and chairman emeritus of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York City. This presentation will look at follow-up using angiograms and clinical outcomes on patients in the Endeavor IV study, which compares the Endeavor drug-eluting stent with the Taxus drug-eluting stent. The resu...

GlaxoSmithKline Obtains Exclusive U.S. OTC Marketing Rights to MEVACOR(R) (lovastatin) from Merck & Co., Inc.

...patients were treated with conventional measures (usually diet and 325 mg of aspirin every other day) and either lovastatin 20-80 mg daily or placebo. angiograms were evaluated at baseline and at two years by computerized quantitative coronary angiography (QCA). Lovastatin significantly slowed the progression o...

Angiograms in Medical Technology

SCAI Statement on the BARI 2D Trial (Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation With Diabetes Trial) Presented at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Annual Scientific Sessions and Published in The New England Journal of Medicine

...n the United States, more than 65 percent of whom die from heart disease or stroke. Limitations of BARI-2D: angiograms for all. When evaluating patients for inclusion in the two trial arms of BARI-2D - OMT alone or OMT plus revascularization - all patients received an...

Angiograms in Medical Products

ANGIOGUARD Capture Guidewire

Features:...olyurethane membrane with 100 pores captures clinically relevant emboli. Self-Centering: The unique umbrella design centers in the vessel. Two angiograms are not required to verify wall apposition. Reliable Wall Apposition: Eight Nitinol struts keep the symmetric basket in contact with the arter...
Company:AMTSystems

ANGIOGUARD® Capture Guidewire

Features:...olyurethane membrane with 100 pores captures clinically relevant emboli. Self-Centering: The unique umbrella design centers in the vessel. Two angiograms are not required to verify wall apposition. Reliable Wall Apposition: Eight Nitinol struts keep the symmetric basket in contact with the arter...
Company:Cordis Corporation

Angiograms in Medical Dictionary

Arteriogram

...ed? ... generally, an arteriogram procedure follows ... A welcome sheet on having an angiogram ( arteriogram ) with angioplasty procedure. ... angiograms ( arteriograms ) are specialized x-ray studies that are frequently done ... An arteriogram is an x-ray image of the blood vessels to evalu...

Angiograms in Biological News

Fast test for low blood flow in dogs detects early heart trouble

...d a three-dimensional image of the heart. The picture is so good, researchers say, it decreases the need for invasive, more risky procedures, such as angiograms or cardiac catheterization, to check for arterial blocks. More than 1 million Americans undergo cardiac catheterization each year, and the proce...