Cardiac arrest victims who receive coronary angiography are twice as likely to survive without significant brain damage compared with those who don't have the imaging procedure, according to a new ...

A normal coronary angiogram does not always guarantee safety from a heart attack. Conditions like microvascular disease, ...

Routine use of early angiography and, if needed, reperfusion in patients resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is standard of care for those with ST-segment elevation. But whether the same ...

A growing body of evidence shows that heart attacks can occur even when angiograms look normal. Cardiologists explain MINOCA, ...

After cardiac arrest, certain patients with suspected ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are denied emergent angiography due to adverse clinical factors or the judgment that ...

Coronary artery disease is a major public health problem. Accurate stratification of patients who present to the emergency department with acute chest pain and have no evidence of acute coronary ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Performing an emergency vs. delayed coronary angiogram after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without ST segment ...

Coronary angiography could wait among people successfully resuscitated from cardiac arrest in the absence of ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI), longer-term results from the COACT trial confirmed.

Patients successfully resuscitated after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who did not have ST-segment elevation on their electrocardiogram did not benefit from emergency coronary angiography in a new ...

Cardiac computed tomography (cardiac CT) includes coronary CT angiography (CTA) as well as using CT technology to assess disease of the cardiac valves, aorta and pericardium. This examination requires ...