For many years, healthcare providers have known that certain sophisticated computerized tomography (CT) scans can detect and ...

An angiogram, a medical imaging test, helps visualize blood vessels and detect issues like blockages or narrowing ...

The Cardiac CT calcium score (CAC score) is a noninvasive test used to detect calcified plaques in coronary arteries and ...

Sublingual nitroglycerine is used to dilate the coronary arteries for better visualization. Depending on the CT scanner being used and the software available, there are numerous variations in ...

The coronary calcium scan, a painless CT scan that evaluates the risk of heart disease by measuring calcium deposits in the coronary arteries, has been proven to save countless lives. I am keenly ...

The solution is having a test that reveals what’s going on inside the arteries that is easily accessible, not potentially dangerous, and is inexpensive. The coronary calcium scan, a painless CT ...

CLEVELAND—Researchers at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals and Houston Methodist will harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to more accurately predict risk of heart ...

More than 18 million adults have coronary artery disease, but many don’t know they have it…until they have chest pain or heart attack. Buildup of calcium in the heart arteries is often the cause. A ...

A zero calcium score with high cholesterol may mean a person is at a lower risk of coronary heart disease. It means imaging does not show a buildup of calcified plaque in the heart’s blood vessels.

Fat hidden within muscles that resembes the so-called marbling seen in beef significantly increases the risk of death from ...

A research team led by Ida Anna Cappello of the Heart Rhythm Management Centre of the University Hospital Brussels (VUB) has ...