Surgical risk is an outdated measure of a patient’s eligibility for aortic valve replacement procedures, one Norfolk, Virginia, cardiologist said at the American College of Cardiology’s annual symposium last weekend—clinicians should instead be turning their attention to the idea of “TAVR suitability.”

In an effort to better comprehend the causes of juvenile stroke, a German doctor and his team conducted an exhaustive investigation into the etiology of the disease in patients between 18 and 55 years old.

The number of patients' requiring vital interventional procedures has risen sharply in the last decade and will continue to increase with an aging world population.

Orlando Regional Medical Center is the first hospital in Florida to utilize the Corindus CorPath System.

Some experts suggest FFR has a role in CABG because of its potential to spare patients a complicated surgery as well as cut costs.

According a study published in the March issue of the journal Radiology, radiologists now have a comparable, non-ionizing option to CT for the detection of pulmonary embolism.

Technological improvements in image acquisition and software processing in nuclear cardiology should allow physicians to shave patient imaging times dramatically or cut radiation doses fourfold, according to a new preferred practice statement from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC).

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Numerous radiology groups are currently discussing arrangements whereby cardiologists and the radiologists would essentially split the responsibilities for reading coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies. Most commonly, as proposed, the cardiologists would read and generate a signed interpretation report, but limited to the cardiac portion of the