The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and GE Healthcare have teamed to provide a cardiovascular ultrasound training event for healthcare providers caring for underserved populations in rural northwest India.

A former cath lab medical technician dubbed the “serial infector” has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire and several other states.

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) identified plaques in acute MI patients whose coronary angiograms did not produce evidence of significant coronary stenosis.

Bracco Diagnostics is voluntarily initiating a Class I recall of nine lots of iopamidol injection (Isovue) prefilled power injector syringes (PFS), which are used in combination with Stellant CT injection systems, due to the presence of visible particles in syringes observed at the end of standard stability studies on retained samples.

Results from routine electrocardiograms (ECGs) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) can accurately predict later adverse events, researchers reported Oct. 28 at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Toronto.

St. Jude Medical has launched its MediGuide Technology, a 3D navigation system intended for the evaluation of vascular and cardiac anatomy on a recorded fluoroscopic image instead of live fluoroscopy (a series of x-ray images).

Patients with a body mass index of 40 kg/m2 or greater should be scheduled for myocardial perfusion imagingon a conventional SPECT camera, as it is difficult to obtain diagnostic image quality on a cadmium-zinc-telluride camera, according to a study in the September issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

The use of CT angiography (CTA) to help guide preventive surgical strategies for patients undergoing redo CABG appears to be justified, based on recently published results.