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ATLANTA -- The presence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) was found to be a significant predictor of adverse cardiac events, and multi-detector CT may be able to predict cardiac events in known or suspected CAD, according to researchers from the Division of Cardiology at Daegu Catholic University in Daegu, South Korea.
In a trial to assess gender differences in coronary plaque composition, researchers found that women presented less coronary segments with calcified and mixed plaque than men and had exhibited lower rates of coronary segments with stenosis equal to or fewer than 70 percent. The study was published in the Feb. 15 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology.
Acute kidney injury occurred in 11.7 percent of patients following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), and was associated with a greater than fourfold increase in the risk of postoperative mortality, according to a Canadian study published online Dec. 27 in the European Heart Journal.
Increased FDG uptake in major arteries emerged as a strong predictor of a subsequent vascular event, according to a study in this month’s Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Tuesday, September 15 2009
A study in today's online edition of the American Journal of Public Health has found that nearly 45,000 deaths annually are associated with a lack of health insurance.
Written by Justine Cadet
In a retrospective analysis of nearly 700,000 non-elderly Americans who underwent at least one medical imaging procedure over a three-year period, approximately 20 percent received a moderate to very high dose of radiation, according to data in the Aug. 27 New England Journal of Medicine. Michael S. Lauer, MD, who wrote the accompanying perspective, stated that most imaging tests haven’t yet proven their benefit compared with the potential risks and costs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the results from three value-based purchasing (VBP) demonstrations, one for large physician practices, one for small and solo physician practices and one for hospitals. The agency simultaneously commissioned the launch of three additional VBP demonstrations.
Professors from Michigan State University (MSU) have received nearly $400,000 for cardiovascular research from the National Institutes of Health via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The segment proximal to a myocardial bridge, which is frequently involved in atherosclerotic plaque formation, could serve as an independent and significant factor with a higher odds ratio than other major risk factors for arteriosclerosis, according to a study presented last week at the 94th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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The use of at-home medical devices to connect doctors and patients via the internet can help patients and their physicians work more efficiently together to manage chronic conditions, according to research at Cleveland Clinic.
Current evidence suggests that using Doppler ultrasound in high-risk pregnancies to monitor a fetus' health may reduce Caesarean sections and the number of babies who die, according to research published today in the Cochrane Systematic Review.
GE Healthcare and Intel have expanded their sales and marketing agreement for the Intel Health Guide to include the U.K. GE already markets the Intel Health Guide in the U.S.
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. and Microsoft have enhanced Mayo Clinic's Health Manager application with features to help users manage hypertension and high cholesterol.
BOSTON—Repeated echocardiogram assessments are not sufficiently accurate to monitor progression of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), according to results of the Registry to Evaluate Early And Long-term PAH disease management (REVEAL) presented Monday at the 2009 Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) conference.
Although radiologic science educators experience less job burnout than practicing radiologic technologists (RTs), there is a significant correlation between health status and burnout levels among the educators, according to survey results released in the July/August issue of Radiologic Technology.
Patients treated for Hodgkin lymphoma with radiotherapy (RT) experience a substantially increased risk of stroke and transient ischemic attack, according to a study published online June 17 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Coronary risk stratification using a risk factor only-based scheme is a weak discriminator of the overall atherosclerotic plaque burden in individual patients compared to coronary CT angiography (CCTA), according to a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.