Search Tag: CCTA

2024 09 Apr

  A groundbreaking approach to guiding, planning, and executing heart bypass surgery has been successfully trialled on patients for the first time by a research team at the University of Galway. The FAST TRACK CABG trial was overseen by the University’s CORRIB Research Centre for Advanced Imaging and Core Lab. The study implemented a method where...Read more

2020 16 Jan

During 2019, a major area of interest in cardiology was multimodality imaging and the application of artificial intelligence to imaging techniques. While conventional imaging still remains important for the assessment of cardiac structure and function, advanced echocardiography with strain imaging techniques, tissue characterisation with cardiovascular...Read more

2014 20 Nov

In a recent study published in JAMA and presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2014, Joseph B. Muhlestein, MD, and colleagues at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Murray, Utah (USA) examined whether screening patients with diabetes deemed to be at high cardiac risk using coronary computed tomographic angiography...Read more

2013 03 Dec

An analysis of data from an international multicentre study of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) reveals that men and women with mild coronary artery disease and similar cardiovascular risk profiles share similar prognoses. Results of the study are presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)....Read more