Imaging News

Patients with positive ECG results and normal stress echocardiography had a slightly increased risk for adverse cardiac events, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The 4-year mortality rate after a diagnosis of critical limb ischemia is more than 50%, comparable to the deadliest cancers, which demands a nationally coordinated action plan, a speaker said at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy.

This was an odd decade — uneven and erratic for the biggest killer and contributor to poor quality of life in the United States, CVD; yet, celebratory and euphoric in other areas of medicine.

Routine cardiac MRI did not result in more specific HF etiologies in patients with nonischemic HF compared with selective cardiac MRI, according to results of the OUTSMART-HF trial published in Circulation.

Artificial intelligence-based analysis of chest X-rays was able to successfully predict the pulmonary to systemic flow ratio in patients with congenital heart disease with greater efficacy than trained pediatric cardiologists, according to findings published in JAMA Cardiology.

Patients hospitalized for HF were found to have significantly elevated long-term risk for venous thromboembolism, regardless of ejection fraction.

The American Heart Association Scientific Sessions had several presentations with major implications for cardiology, most notably the ISCHEMIA and ISCHEMIA-CKD trials, considered to be the most important findings for management of stable ischemic heart disease in more than a decade.

Very low concentrations of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin did not allow the safe exclusion of inducible myocardial ischemia, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Despite presumably living a physically active lifestyle and eating a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, three of four Inuit adolescent or young adult mummies who lived approximately 500 years ago had vascular calcification, according to a new case series from the Horus Study Group published in JAMA Network Open.

Among patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance, the interaction of ischemic mitral regurgitation severity and myocardial infarct size predicted adverse outcomes, researchers reported.