Imaging News

Tocilizumab, an interleukin-6 receptor inhibitor, improved myocardial salvage in patients with first-time acute STEMI compared with placebo, according to the ASSAIL-MI trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Icosapent ethyl as an adjunct to statin therapy significantly reduced multiple plaque components, including low-attenuation plaque, at 18 months, compared with placebo, according to final results of the EVAPORATE trial.

Cardiologists and clinicians do not often recognize the sex-specific CVD pathophysiology in women, especially when using imaging modalities to diagnose patients, according to a speaker.

Philips announced it launched an updated cardiac imaging and mapping system with new imaging and workflow enhancements to treat patients with atrial fibrillation.

Occupational exposures to vehicle exhaust, burning wood, metals and pesticides were linked to abnormal parameters of left ventricular and right ventricular systolic dysfunction in Hispanic and Latino participants, researchers found.

Adults who received radiation therapy during childhood for abdominal and pelvic cancers appeared more likely than the general population to experience body composition abnormalities and worse cardiometabolic outcomes, study results showed.

Patients who underwent IVUS-guided PCI had more comorbidities but experienced less mortality, MI and repeat revascularization during the follow-up period than patients who underwent PCI without IVUS, researchers reported.

Using coronary CTA for comprehensive anatomic interpretation was superior to functional imaging to determine fractional flow reserve, researchers found in the CREDENCE trial.

Inferior frontal lobe activation caused in addition to mental stress was independently linked to angina at baseline and during 2-year follow-up, researchers found.

In patients with MI, reduced left ventricular ejection fraction and large LV scar size, cardiosphere-derived cells did not reduce scar size but lowered LV volume and levels of a key biomarker, according to results of the ALLSTAR trial.