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 ...

Interventionalists don’t often order a CXR ahead of time, but when it’s already been done, some find the added info useful.

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...