Cardiac MRI

Case History: 60-year-old female with shortness of breath worsening with exertion and fatigue.

A CT protocol with lower radiation and contrast dose for aortic assessment provides acceptable diagnostic imaging.

Radiation exposure during angiography might be decreased if radiologists can view the images on wide screens.

74-year-old with history of aortic valve repair at an outside hospital.

Cardiac and abdominal imaging performed by residents using a pocket-size ultrasound increases diagnostic accuracy.

Coronary CT imaging may help clinicians identify patients with suspected angina who may go on to have myocardial infarction.

Use of some cardiac imaging improved after implementation of appropriate use criteria, but not for all tests.

Clinicians using ultrasound may detect potential heart attacks or strokes before patients show symptoms.

Routine CT angiography for patients with diabetes not more effective in preventing cardiovascular complications than good standard of care.

Coronary CT angiography may become an important part NAFLD assessment.

Increasing use of cardiac stress testing with imaging may be unnecessary and adds to cost and patient exposure to radiation.

The ACUSON SC2000 premium cardiovascular imaging system provides physicians with a more accurate, speedier view, according to Siemens.

EMR vendors threaten the cardiology imaging informatics field.

Cardiac MRI procedure volume is on the rise, potentially bidding radiologists and cardiologists against each other.

Radiology and cardiology informatics vendors are less concerned with interoperability in the U.S.

New CT scanners’ variability affects cardiovascular risk classification.

Coronary CT angiography is a useful tool in detecting prevalence and type of coronary artery fistulas.

CCTA may be effective in screening CAD in adult survivors of Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Cardiac imaging with PET and MRI shows excellent diagnostic accuracy compared with SPECT-MPI.

High resolution coronary CT angiography provides better results among patients at high risk for CAD than does standard resolution coronary angiography.

Incidental findings from diagnostic chest CT may help physicians identify patients at risk for cardiovascular disease.

The now FDA-approved angiography system by Siemens Healthcare has been optimized for extensive clinical utilization.

The latest dual source CT includes features that provide low dose imaging for patients with renal insufficiency, difficulty holding their breath and more.

Patients undergoing low dose CT chest screening for lung cancer may also be assessed by automated coronary artery calcification scoring.

Pulmonary CT angiograms that detect coronary artery calcification can help predict acute coronary syndrome in some patients

As clinicians order more noninvasive cardiac imaging for patients with suspected ischemia, hospital admission rates and angiography rise.

Imaging with CT and coronary CT angiography shows prevalent and extensive presence of coronary artery plaque among men infected with HIV.

Use of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging exams dropped sharply between 2006 and 2011, but substitute imaging studies haven’t increased.

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging may help clinicians predict future cardiac events among patients with coronary artery disease or recent MI.

CT angiography and SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging improves with the use of synchronized multimodal heart visualization software.