December 16, 2008 (Washington, DC) — The latest study to compare the diagnostic accuracy of CT angiography (CTA) to the gold standard--conventional coronary angiography (CCA)--indicates that the ...

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 ...

HERSHEY, PA — A new meta-analysis shows that use of coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) is associated with significantly fewer MIs than standard functional stress testing in patients with ...

Giving CT angiogram scans to people coming to the emergency room with chest pain could improve the speed of heart attack detection and lower costs, a research study has found. Among the findings were ...

SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - You have probably heard of a stress test to determine any issues with your heart. However, here's another test that doctors say can give patients more ease of mind, and still ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — If you've ever worried about your heart health but scared to undergo an invasive treatment to get it checked, there’s a test that offers answers without a hospital stay or surgery. Dr.

MUNICH, Germany—Some are hailing the 5-year results from SCOT-HEART, showing that a chest-pain workup strategy using coronary CT angiography (CTA) is superior to standard care, as the most powerful, ...

Noninvasive CT scans are far better at finding clogged arteries that can trigger a heart attack than the exercise stress tests most chest pain patients take, research shows. A new head-to-head ...

Česky: Koronární arterie s anglickým popisem English: heart with coronary arteries (Photo credit: Wikipedia According to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, using coronary CT scans ...

As more and more Americans undergo CT scans and other medical imaging scans involving intense X-rays, a new study suggests that many of them should take a pre-scan drug that could protect their ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — As more and more Americans undergo CT scans and other medical imaging scans involving intense X-rays, a new study suggests that many of them should take a pre-scan drug that could ...