Eating a potassium-rich diet can help women lower their blood pressure and reduce their risk of cardiovascular events by a significant margin, according to a new study of more than 25,000 adults.
AI-generated coronary tree from a patient's CT scan showing a color code of areas of interest for plaque burden from the Cleerly software shown at SCCT 2022.
Former European Society of Cardiology president Prof. Jeroen Bax explains the difficulty in quantifying these plaques manually and how artificial intelligence may change this to allow rapid, detailed quantitative analysis.
Allan Lansing, MD, PhD, performed the first coronary artery bypass in the state of Kentucky. He also volunteered to help patients all over the world and was publicly honored by President George H. W. Bush in 1991.
Image courtesy of Cleveland Clinic and JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.
During valve-in-valve TMVR, patients are treated with conscious sedation or monitored anesthesia care instead of general anesthesia. This new analysis confirms that the change does not impact patient outcomes, but it was linked to a shorter length of stay.
Elucid's AI analysis software in action. The left image shows coronary CT angiography of a vessel showing plaque heavy calcium burden. The right image, processed by Elucid's software, highlights the various types of plaque morphology of these lesions.
New artificial intelligence software that can evaluate coronary CT scans to automatically assess soft plaques were by far the biggest technology advance discussed at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) 2022 meeting.
Subclinical leaflet thrombosis after TAVR imaged by CT. The areas of clot attached to the valve leaflets appear dark. Image courtesy of Cahill et al. and JAMA Cardiology.
Treating subclinical leaflet thrombosis after TAVR has been an ongoing challenge for structural heart clinicians, but recent research has gone a long way toward improving our understanding of this important topic.
LaPrincess Brewer, MD, a Mayo Clinic preventive cardiologist and principal investigator of the study, explains a heart model. Image is Courtesy of Mayo Clinic, and was taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A new trial for participants from 16 church groups in Minnesota showed that app users significantly improved their heart health scores after just 10 weeks.
Eric Williamson, MD, MSCCT, the 2021-2022 president of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) and professor of radiology at Mayo Clinic, shared his key takeaways from the SCCT 2022 conference.
