Performing an emergency vs. delayed coronary angiogram after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without ST segment elevation was not associated with greater 180-day survival rate or better neurologic ...

A coronary angiogram is basically an X-ray photograph of the heart's arteries to look for blockages. It should NOT be done to diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) in a stable patient, as this is ...

More than 600,000 Americans will have a heart attack this year. As a result many of us -- or someone we love -- will one day undergo a coronary angiogram.

AI accurately predicted several measures of cardiac function from coronary angiography that would otherwise require additional tests such as echocardiography or catheterization, a speaker reported ...

The invasive coronary angiogram was 'accidentally' discovered by Sones in 1965 at the Cleveland clinic angiogram laboratory, when he accidentally injected dye into the right coronary artery, got ...

It involves, as a first step, invasive coronary angiography to diagnose stenoses ≥ 90% on visual estimation. After that, testing is tailored to whatever results are revealed along the way. For ...

Coronary angiography performed in a 38-year-old man on September 14, 1977, showed a high-grade but discrete stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery just before the first ...

For the randomized BOSS trial, 376 patients who underwent either coronary (n=299) or peripheral angiogram (n=77) were assigned to receive either a bicarbonate solution (n= 151 in coronary group; n=35 ...

A new study has identified factors that predict poor long-term survival in patients who have survived a cardiac arrest and are being considered for coronary angiography. Patients who were older ...