Redwood City, Calif. — October 29, 2018 — Today, on World Stroke Day, iSchemaView, the worldwide leader in advanced imaging for stroke, announced that adoption of its RAPID advanced imaging platform has grown more than 100 percent year-to-date.
Omega-3 treatment was associated with significantly fewer gastrointestinal bleeding events for patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), researchers reported in Circulation: Heart Failure.
Patients with normal arteries upon coronary CT angiography (CTA) experienced either death or myocardial infarction at a rate of 0.04 percent per year, according to a study with 10 years of follow-up published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
The relative value unit (RVU)-based compensation model in U.S. academic medical centers can twist incentives and prioritize clinical productivity over research and teaching, three researchers argued in a viewpoint published Oct. 20 in the European Heart Journal.
Cardiac MRI can accurately diagnose pulmonary hypertension (PH) without the invasiveness of right-sided heart catheterization (RHC), suggests a new study published in Radiology.
A simple score containing four MRI markers of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is associated with stroke, dementia and mortality among older adults, according to an analysis of the population-based Rotterdam Study published Oct. 24 in Stroke.
The majority of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients in the Midwest live within an hour of their nearest percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)-capable hospital and are able to undergo primary PCI within two hours of an MI, researchers reported in the American Journal of Cardiology.
Berkeley, CA, Oct. 25, 2018 — Eko, creators of a heart and lung monitoring platform that combines non-invasive cardiac sensors with machine learning, has announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to develop a data-driven technology — using machine learning and a smart digital stethoscope — to help physicians detect patients with potentially dangerous heart diseases that may otherwise be missed.
