Chest pain may still be angina even when coronary angiogram testing shows the main heart arteries look clear. Using stress ...

Symptomatic people with evidence of coronary artery disease on imaging significantly benefited from statin use while those ...

Stress CMR significantly enhances diagnostic accuracy for chest pain without obstructive coronary artery disease, identifying ...

The new test measures a protein called cystatin C. The older and still standard method for assessing the health of the kidney’s tiny blood filters, or glomeruli, involves blood tests for a waste ...

Risk stratification of patients with chest pain has traditionally focused on identifying obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). Using this traditional approach, many symptomatic individuals are ...

Performing angioplasty and angiography through the radial artery of the arm is as effective as the traditional method of entering through the femoral artery of the groin, but has fewer complications ...

A new type of imaging technique using an MRI device can detect most diseased coronary arteries, potentially sparing many heart patients a more invasive, expensive and uncomfortable test, researchers ...

Angiogram and angioplasty are heart procedures. Angiogram diagnoses heart vessel issues using X-rays and dye. Angioplasty treats blockages by opening arteries with a balloon and stent. Angiograms ...

THE diagnosis of pancreatic neoplasms is difficult because of the inaccessibility of the organ to the usual means of examination. Conventional methods of diagnostic, radiography are helpful in only a ...

A novel type of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography is highly accurate in identifying blockages in the arteries that carry blood to the brain, according to a study in the February issue ...

The man’s symptoms were intermittent, and he lived with them for years. Then he got scared enough to seek help.