In patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), right ventricular (RV) strain analysis can provide additional support to traditional risk assessment methods, wrote authors of a new Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging study.

Right ventricular (RV) strain analysis could be a useful addition to existing methods of risk assessment in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), according to recent research that identified RV longitudinal strain from the free wall (RV-fwLS) as an independent predictor of cardiac events in the demographic.

An electrocardiographic imaging algorithm can produce higher resolution cardiac images of patients suffering from atrial fibrillation compared to traditional techniques, reported authors of an Oct. 16 study published in APL Bioengineering.

Women with a history of cardiotoxicity from previous cancer treatments are around 30 percent more likely to experience clinical congestive heart failure (CHF) before, during or after pregnancy, according to research published ahead of print in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

A new pregnancy trend is having expectant mothers turn their nails into a canvas featuring images of their unborn baby’s sonograms. The results are taking social media by storm, according to a recent report by People.com.

A polio-like condition called acute flaccid mylelitis (AFM) that causes partial paralysis is showing up in children across the U.S. and can only be detected with MRI and spinal fluid tests, according to a report published Oct. 8 by NBC News.

MRI measurements of carotid wall thickness improve predictions of cardiovascular disease risk more than a commonly used ultrasound-based test, according to research published Oct. 9 in Radiology.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the MAGNETOM Sola, a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner from Siemens Healthineers that brings groundbreaking BioMatrix technology to the 1.5T market.