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 ...

In 2016, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom broke new ground when it recommended coronary CT angiography as the test of first choice for all patients ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the number one cause of death in men and women. CAD is caused by atherosclerotic plaques developing in the coronary arteries. Many therapies have been shown to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . I was recently reading an interesting article from 2011 describing the story of how fluorescein angiography was ...

Immediate coronary angiography might, in fact, be harmful for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) but without ST-segment elevation, according to a new Bayesian analysis combining ...

Houston, TX - Patients in the Veterans Affairs (VA) medical system are less likely to receive angioplasty when they have class 1 indications for the procedure than are Medicare patients treated in the ...

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 ...