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

Pricing updates will take effect on July 1 and mark the first rate increase in more than a decade, ACR said. 

ACR and RBMA want lawmakers to reintroduce the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act to begin addressing a growing deficit of docs.

One of the new recommendations is to conduct baseline imaging with TEE or cardiac CT.

Cardiology has the second largest number of FDA-cleared AI algorithms, and many of them are for cardiac ultrasound. Echocardiography expert Patricia A. Pellikka, MD, discusses this trend and how AI is helping improve echo.

Recent evidence confirms that interventional radiology produces solid clinical outcomes while beating surgery on the cost-effectiveness of numerous procedures.

Atul Verma, MD, director of cardiology at McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, explained why the late-breaking PULSED-AF trial data on Medtronic’s pulsed-field ablation technology is so important for cardiologists. 

To reduce the healthcare costs associated with straightforward, minimally invasive cardiovascular procedures, more and more ambulatory surgical centers and office based labs are opening all over the United States.