Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. Angiography is the first test the Cardiologist recommends when one visits complaining of Angina pains. The word ...

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 ...

The first of its kind blood test can determine whether or not there is a blockage in your heart. The new genetic based blood test could drastically reduce the number of invasive and unnecessary 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 ...

Norman Swan: This morning on the Health Report, getting genes to shut up as a treatment for inherited problems; another inherited condition that's under-recognised in Australia which can show up as ...

A new type of imaging technique using an MRI device can detect most diseased coronary arteries, potentially sparing many heart patients a more invasive, expensive and uncomfortable test, researchers ...

A noninvasive method for measuring fluid status in patients before coronary angiography has been shown to predict the development of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (AKI), reports a paper ...

Patients who had a CT scan to check for build-up in the arteries around the heart had more surgeries, and more costly medical care, than those who had their hearts checked with basic stress tests, in ...