Imaging News

A deep learning model trained to quantify epicardial adipose tissue volume measured via routine coronary CT angiography scans can improve risk assessment for CV and non-CV outcomes, independent of other risk factors, researchers reported.

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a life-altering event that predominantly affects women, but there is little consensus about how to best diagnose and treat it.

Feb. 3 is Wear Red Day. In support of women’s heart health, Healio and Cardiology Today have curated a list of recent updates in women’s heart health.

Data from a large U.S. survey show a noninvasive visceral adiposity index score, a metric for assessing obesity, can independently predict and serve as a novel marker of HF risk, researchers reported.

An analysis of more 800 MRI examinations shows the scans do not induce clinically significant functional changes in non-MRI-conditional implantable cardioverter defibrillators, data from a single-center study show.

A novel CT scan helped physicians identify hormone-producing nodules that cause hypertension, curing some patients of the condition with their removal, according to the results of a prospective, within-patient trial.

Effectiveness of diagnostic evaluation strategies for stable CAD performed in outpatient settings.

In patients with ischemia and no obstructive coronary arteries, known as INOCA, the level of nonobstructive coronary stenosis does not affect the prognostic impact of coronary microvascular dysfunction, researchers reported.

In patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction, elevated left atrial stiffness was associated with increased risk for all-cause mortality and HF hospitalization, researchers reported.

Researchers in France observed that maternal inheritance of familial hypercholesterolemia was associated with greater odds of having subclinical coronary atherosclerosis compared with paternal inheritance of the gene mutation.