Iodinated contrast is most widely used in patients undergoing CT studies for, in descending order, abdominopelvic, chest, head/neck and brain indications.

Gadolinium might be an alternative, stop-gap solution for interventional procedures during the current iodine contrast shortage.

Researchers tracked data from more than 2,000 TAVR patients, focusing on cardiovascular mortality and hospitalizations for heart failure. 

Medical images have long lived on legacy spinning disk. But healthcare systems are now leaving behind those on-prem, awkward boxes that require too much real estate, IT support and expense. Cloud is the choice to support enterprise imaging. If it feels like healthcare cloud is everywhere, you’re right. And here’s what you need to know to do cloud right.

Is it pneumonia or COVID-19? With the help of artificial intelligence, a chest X-ray can reveal the answer.

Computer-aided detection boosted by AI has often proven superior to traditional CAD over the past decade, yet the “new way” has been slow to win broad adoption.

The company says the approval for ablations will allow interventional radiologists to perform these operations with nonlinear steering that facilitates high accuracy and average skin-to-target times under nine minutes.

Football players whose heads are repeatedly struck but suffer no concussions have white-matter abnormalities similar to those sustained by their concussed peers. 

“For patients with cardiovascular disease, abortion access is a critical part of their comprehensive cardiovascular and reproductive care,” according to the three authors of a new commentary piece in JAMA Cardiology.

Authors of the study noted that using the algorithm eliminates the issue of subjectivity and time-consuming visual assessments of emphysema.