MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Researchers have developed a bedside model of CAD risk factors among patients undergoing noncoronary cardiac surgery to help clinicians better identify which patients have a low risk ...

The genomic drivers of coronary artery disease (CAD) are associated with the presentation of acute coronary syndromes and the severity and burden of angiographic CAD; these drivers also predict the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although the lifetime risk of cancer associated with exposure to radiation from computerize tomographic (CT) coronary angiography is "non-negligible," the risk varies ...

MONTREAL—Patients who experience acute kidney injury (AKI) after undergoing coronary angiography have more than double the long-term risk of dying and a 74% greater likelihood of being hospitalized ...

For decades, a clean coronary angiogram has been considered reassuring, almost synonymous with a healthy heart. But cardiologists are now warning that this assumption can be dangerously misleading. A ...

Coronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA) may be as good as invasive coronary angiography (ICA) at predicting the long-term risk of adverse events in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute ...

Inorganic nitrate reduces contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN), improves renal outcomes and reduces cardiac events compared to placebo in patients at risk of renal injury undergoing coronary angiography ...

A heart problem rarely arrives very silently. Chest discomfort, breathlessness, or an abnormal stress test can suddenly bring unfamiliar medical terms into everyday conversations. Among the most ...