The heart is an intricate plumbing system of valves, pumps and pipelike vessels which control the flow of blood throughout the body, and the doctors who specialize in its function, diagnosis and ...

As a diagnostic tool, cardiac catheterization has become central to many a cardiologist’s practice. Yet because it is so popular, a new set of criteria seeks to help clinicians understand procedure ...

An eight-year HonorHealth Research Institute clinical trial, using non-surgical techniques, showed 86% of patients with a type of usually fatal low blood pressure known as "structural shock" survived ...

ROYAL OAK -- A research study led by led by Beaumont Health System cardiologists and involving 47 hospitals and outpatient centers in Michigan may help spare patients from unnecessary invasive heart ...

Research has shown that cardiac catheterization is performed extensively in the United States each year and may often be the best method to diagnose heart problems. Research has shown that cardiac ...

The developments in MRI catheterization have been subject to several reviews [25,27–29,44–47] and editorials, [31–34,48] with an enthusiasm for the technique stressing the excellent potential of this ...

Diagnostic health catheterization is the biggest core service in catheterization labs, representing 37.7 percent of overall revenue, according to a SpringBoard HealthCare report. The “2012 Cardiac ...

Cardiac catheterization laboratories have evolved from highly specialized research facilities to highly utilized operating rooms where extensive diagnostic testing and interventional treatments are ...

In the first large national study on the topic, Yale researchers found lower rates of cardiac catheterization, a diagnostic procedure used to assess blood flow to the heart, in women after a heart ...

Stable patients undergoing elective catheterization in Ontario, Canada, were 50% more likely to be diagnosed with obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) than their counterparts in New York State ...

MRI- or combined x-ray and MRI (XMR)-guided catheterization was introduced as an alternative to x-ray-guided catheterization to reduce radiation exposure and offer more comprehensive anatomical, ...