One benefit of these new detectors is that they can operate efficiently across multiple energy levels.

SCAI President Sunil Rao, MD, spoke with us about some of the key interventional cardiology studies presented at ACC.23 in New Orleans. 

The study’s primary endpoint, amputation-free survival after six months, was seen in 66.1% of CLTI patients who underwent transcatheter arterialization.

Weekend warriors who take brisk walks of around four miles just once or twice per week enjoy lower cardiovascular and all-cause mortality than their sedentary peers.

“The effect of lower doses of radiation on the heart and blood vessels may have been underestimated in the past,” experts explained in BMJ.

When should a clinician tell a patient they have a gene variant that appeared incidentally but may have ramifications for cardiovascular health?

Patients hospitalized for severe infectious diseases are at heightened risk of major cardiovascular-disease events within a month of admission date. 

The findings contradict prior research that utilized the same software, experts involved in the research noted. This could be due to out-of-distribution data for the DL software, which could impair its performance.