An experimental cellphone app that transferred echocardiogram (ECG) images from emergency personnel to hospitals proved to be faster and more reliable than emailing images, according to an oral abstract presented May 17 at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research scientific sessions in Baltimore.

ASE members discuss recent changes to contrast enhanced stress echo.

PET with 11C-PIB provides a noninvasive method for visualizing amyloid deposits in the heart, according to a study published in the February issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The researchers suggest that 11C-PIB eventually may be used in the clinical setting as both a diagnostic tool and a treatment follow-up method.

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.

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.

Predicting coronary heart disease with traditional risk factors may be imprecise, but adding ECGs to the mix may help, especially in the elderly patient population, according to study results published in the April 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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.

Adding two MRI sequences to a common MR pulmonary angiogram (MRPA) significantly improves detection of pulmonary embolism and could provide an alternative to CT angiography (CTA) for diagnosis, according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology.