(A) CT scan showing pericardial effusion. (B) CT scan showing a foreign body (arrow) penetrating the right ventricle. (C) Sewing needle. Images/caption courtesy of JACC: Case Reports.
The patient had a habit of holding sewing needles in his mouth while he worked as a tailor. He did not mention this at first, however, creating a challenge for his care team.
After being off the U.S. market for nearly four years, the radiotracer thallium-201 is once again available. According to Curium, the decision to bring it back came after communicating with the nuclear cardiology community.
A Florida resident, 55, nearly died from a pulmonary embolism in 2025. A new lawsuit claims he would have gone to the hospital much sooner if not for a chatbot's guidance.
A team of specialists detailed new data and recent breakthroughs in the diagnosis, management and treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Ron Blankstein, MD, FACC, FASNC, FSCCT, FASPC, director of cardiac CT, Brigham and Women's, former SCCT president, professor of medicine for cardiology and radiology at Harvard Medical School, explains how CCTA has made rapid advances over the past 20 years and may soon become a paradigm shift in cardiovascular prevention care. Photo by Dave Fornell
Cardiac imaging expert Ron Blankstein, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, provides an overview of how CCTA may soon become a paradigm shift in cardiac prevention.
CCTA can show the regression of atherosclerosis due to drug therapies over time, so it may be a good tool to identify those patients who need of more aggressive therapy.
