Imaging News

Coronary artery calcification score and self-rated health status were poorly connected and may in fact be complementary when predicting CV risk, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

The use of a transcatheter tricuspid valve reconstruction system in patients with symptomatic and moderate-to-severe functional tricuspid regurgitation safely reduced tricuspid regurgitation through decrease in annular dimensions, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

A neural network exceeded human performance by accurately identifying the manufacturer and model of pacemakers and defibrillators in patients who underwent radiography, according to a study published in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology.

NEW ORLEANS — Two substudies from the COAPT trial presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session found that patients with moderate-to-severe or severe aortic regurgitation who had transcatheter mitral valve repair and guideline-directed medical therapy had improvements in health status as soon as 1 month.

NEW ORLEANS — Along with symptomatic status, elevated indexed left ventricular end-systolic dimension predicted mortality in patients with moderate to severe or severe aortic regurgitation but no CAD, researchers reported at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

NEW ORLEANS — An advanced imaging study using fluorine-18 sodium fluoride PET determined that there is a relationship between atherosclerosis and erectile dysfunction, researchers reported at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

In a cohort of patients with atrial fibrillation, many had large noncortical or cortical infarcts or other brain lesions, which were mostly clinically silent but often associated with reduced cognitive function, researchers reported.

Lesion morphology was the only independent predictor of complications in balloon pulmonary angioplasty procedures to treat chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, researchers reported.

Stress cardiac MRI exam results were associated with mortality in patients with known or suspected CAD, according to findings published in JAMA Cardiology.

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography recently issued updated guidelines for the use of CT imaging in the setting of transcatheter aortic valve replacement.