Traditionally, the interventional cardiologist first visualizes the coronary anatomy in detail when contrast is injected in the catheterization laboratory. For many patients, however, that anatomy has already been captured, often in considerable detail, by coronary CT angiography (CCTA) performed earlier in the clinical pathway. This article considers how this dataset can be used to plan the procedure, an approach referred to as CT-guided PCI.

For hospitals, health systems and physician groups, effective cardiovascular strategic planning is the foundation for better cardiovascular care delivery, stronger service line performance and sustainable program growth. This article offers a practical approach for cardiovascular leaders who want a service line strategy that is more than a document.

Cardiologists have always wanted a better way to identify heart patients in need of care early in their course of disease. Artificial intelligence may be the tool physicians have been waiting for. 

"I want to be safe, I want to get the vessel open and I don’t want to spend a long time doing it," cardiologist William C. Dixon, MD, explains. "IVL helps me achieve all of those things.” 

Dimitrios Bliagos, MD, specializes in treating challenging patients. If they get turned away elsewhere, he says, he wants the opportunity to step in and make a difference.

Artificial intelligence-enabled post-processing software is dramatically reducing cardiac imaging analysis times while improving consistency and collaboration between radiologists and cardiologists, according to Laura Dragonetti, MD, cardiac radiologist, internal medicine specialist and head, Cardiac Radiology Department at Alemán Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Andy Morse, MD, the director of valvular and structural heart disease at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West in Nashville, leads a team that has performed more than 4,000 TAVR procedures. He spoke to Cardiovascular Business about recent findings on the long-term performance of the balloon-expandable SAPIEN 3™ platform.

Follow-up care after a successful heart transplant can be challenging—both for providers and their patients. Consider, for example, the fact that so many patients who develop complications never actually present with symptoms.