SEATTLE — If you've ever worried about your heart health but scared to undergo an invasive treatment to get it checked, there’s a test that offers answers without a hospital stay or surgery. Dr.

A new method for determining whether patients with heart disease need coronary stents or bypass surgery is more effective than the angiogram, which is currently used, according to research from ...

April 11 (UPI) --A newly developed, non-invasive imaging test can help identify which patients with coronary artery blockage or narrowing need angioplasty or a bypass procedure, a U.S. study published ...

A new study found that a non-invasive, AI enabled Coronary Computer Tomography Angiography effectively identified stenosis equally well or better than the conventional gold standard of invasive ...

Photo Credit: Adapted from Prasad M. Case in a Box: Step-by-step Approach to Assessment of Microvascular Disease in an INOCA Patient. Presented at: TCT 2023. San Francisco, CA. For patients with ...

Dr. Topol is senior author of: Rosenberg S, Elashoff MR, Beineke B, et al; PREDICT (Personalized Risk Evaluation and Diagnosis in the Coronary Tree) Investigators. Multicenter validation of the ...

Cardiologist explains why some younger adults with obesity, diabetes or smoking history may need a CT angiogram to detect ...

When a Cardiologist tells you that you have“90 percent blockage,” the mind goes straight to fear. Most families immediately ask three questions. Is this a heart attack. Do I need a stent right now.

Chest pain may still be angina even when the main heart arteries look clear. Using cardiac stress MRI (a heart scan that measures blood flow with magnetic resonance imaging), testing uncovered small ...