Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

Cardiac catheterization is a radiological procedure for both diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions. It involves the insertion of a long thin flexible tube called catheter a vein or an artery to ...

A speedy trip to the cath lab for coronary angiography is not linked to better outcomes in patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest but do not have ST-segment elevation on an initial ECG, ...

Immediate coronary angiography for resuscitated cardiac arrest patients without signs of heart attack doesn't help, the COACT trial showed at the American College of Cardiology annual meeting in New ...

Morton Kern, MD, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in cardiology. Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of ...

A new single-plane digital subtraction angiogram cath lab was inaugurated at the cardiology department of Kilpauk Medical College (KMC) on Wednesday by C Vijaya Baskar, minister for health and family ...

Trichy: The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Government Hospital has treated 50 patients with heart conditions since the cath lab at the hospital started functioning. Hospital administration said at a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CALORI study calls into question the practice of fasting before cardiac catheterization. Patients not ...

Doctors are now able to image the heart and coronary arteries with a CT scan, avoiding in some cases the need for an invasive test that involves snaking a catheter through the arteries themselves.

Allied Market Research has published a comprehensive new research report, titled, "Cath lab services Market by Service Type ...