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Researchers evaluated the effects of pictorial presentations of carotid ultrasound results on patients regarding 1-year mortality.
Carvedilol with breast cancer treatment reduces echocardiographic findings
Patients with nonmetastatic HER-2 positive breast cancer and weak markers of HF treated with trastuzumab had reductions in systolic and diastolic echocardiographic findings when concomitantly treated with carvedilol, according to findings presented at EuroEcho-Imaging.
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CONSERVE: Selective referral using CTA efficient for suspected CAD
Selective referrals of coronary CTA were determined to be a more efficient and accurate method in guiding decisions of invasive coronary angiography for suspected CAD vs. a direct referral strategy, according to findings published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
Report guides clinicians on revascularization options for PAD
Five societies released appropriate use criteria for interventions for peripheral artery disease.
Patients with HIV prone to coronary endothelial dysfunction
Adults treated for HIV had elevated serum PCSK9 levels and abnormal coronary endothelial function, researchers reported.
CT angiography plus CT perfusion imaging may reduce revascularizations
Adding stress myocardial CT perfusion imaging to examinations with CT angiography may safely increase diagnostic specificity and reduce the need for invasive treatments in patients with possible ischemic heart disease, according to a study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
Performance during exercise echocardiography predicts mortality risk
Exercise echocardiography predicts CV death, cancer-related death and death not related to either CVD or cancer, according to data presented at EuroEcho-Imaging.
Tiered imaging protocol viable alternative to functional testing
A comprehensive, tiered cardiac CT protocol that incorporates CT myocardial perfusion imaging with CT angiography may provide a safe and efficient diagnostic alternative to functional testing for patients with possible CAD, according to a study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
Sudden cardiac death risk factors confer unexplained racial disparities
The disparity in sudden cardiac death rates between black and white patients remains unexplained even when controlling for risk factors, including sociodemographics, comorbidity and behavioral health data, according to findings published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Iliac vein compression not cause of iliac DVT
According to a retrospective study, iliac vein compression appears to be a promoter of, but not a cause of, iliac deep vein thrombosis.