Delayed-enhancement cardiac MR (DE-CMR) one day may be used to guide reablation procedures to treat atrial fibrillation if results from a feasibility and proof-of-concept study pan out. The study showed DE-CMR accurately identified and localized gaps in patients being reablated because of recurrences.

Prolonged electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring in patients with cryptogenic stroke improved the detection of atrial fibrillation by a factor of five compared with standard 24-hour monitoring, results published June 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine showed. Detection changed anticoagulation treatment as well.

Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is often not reported in pulmonary CT angiography studies, requiring CAC assessment by radiologists in demographics at risk, according to a study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. 

A new Web-based platform that analyzes multimodal signals may help make electrophysiological data easier to evaluate and incorporate into clinical research, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Although a majority of medical experts recently polled believe young athletes should be screened for cardiac disease before participating in sports, less than half of providers in the U.S. say electrocardiograms (ECGs) should be included, according to an article published March 6 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The majority of their European counterparts, on the other hand, do favor ECGs as part of the process.

Hospitals appear to be more than willing to share price information with healthcare consumers, if the item of interest is a parking spot. But divulging costs on items such as an electrocardiogram (ECG) is another thing.

Magnetocardiography accurately diagnosed long QT syndrome (LQTS) in fetuses, according to a study published online Nov. 12 in Circulation.