A simple screening could be a lifesaver for those with an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which often goes undetected until it becomes deadly. The abdominal aorta is the main artery supplying blood from ...
July 18, 2007 (New York, NY) - Cardiologists and emergency department (ED) physicians faced with a young woman complaining of chest pain may want to choose a diagnostic test other than cardiac CT ...
In an interview at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference earlier this year, Viz.ai CEO Chris Mansi, M.D., told Fierce Medtech that the company is aiming to increase its current suite of ...
About 12 percent of patients undergoing aortic valve replacement developed non-symptomatic blood clots around the valve leaflets (known as subclinical leaflet thrombosis) that reduced the motion of ...
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Jerry Zezima: A scan to dye for

If there is one thing I don’t want to get off my chest, it’s hair, which is usually ripped out by the roots when I have a ...
A new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that radiation from a high-resolution cardiac CT scan—the newest, noninvasive test for detecting heart disease—may ...