Imaging News

Men and women with severe tricuspid regurgitation have similar rates of procedural success and 2-year survival after transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention, despite significant differences in cardiac volumetrics and comorbidities.

Prior COVID‐19 was not associated with a higher risk for complications during and after pharmacologic myocardial perfusion imaging stress testing, data from a large claims database analysis show.

Healthy adults with spherical hearts, identified through a deep learning analysis of cardiac MRI images, were 31% more likely to develop atrial fibrillation and 24% more likely to develop cardiomyopathy, researchers reported.

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions and the Heart Rhythm Society released an updated expert consensus statement on transcatheter left atrial appendage closure for atrial fibrillation.

NEW ORLEANS — Intravascular imaging-guided PCI was associated with lower risk for target vessel failure vs. angiography-guided PCI for the treatment of complex coronary artery lesions, a speaker reported.

NEW ORLEANS — In patients with stable CAD, use of CT-derived fractional flow reserve with on-site machine learning reduced invasive coronary angiography in those who did not need it, but did not improve other outcomes, researchers reported.

NEW ORLEANS — In adults with stable CAD on maximally tolerated statin therapy, more intensive lipid lowering with evolocumab was associated with favorable coronary plaque characteristics seen on multiple CV imaging modalities, data show.

Automatic calcium scoring with nongated chest CT was prognostic of major adverse and cardiotoxicity-related CV events in patients with large B-cell lymphoma undergoing anthracycline-based chemotherapy, researchers reported.

A composite biomarker score derived from six metabolites that indicate malnutrition or inflammation provided strong stratification of all-cause mortality in two large, independent cohorts that underwent cardiac catheterization, data show.

Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Barry L. Zaret, MD, MASNC, a pioneer in the field of nuclear cardiology, recently passed away, the American Society for Nuclear Cardiology announced.