Cardiac catheterization is a radiological procedure for both diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions. It involves the insertion of a long thin flexible tube called catheter a vein or an artery to ...

Retrograde catheterization showed a pulmonary-capillary-left-ventricle diastolic gradient of 13 mm. of mercury, a calculated valve area of 1.0 square centimeter and no regurgitation at angiography.

A speedy trip to the cath lab for coronary angiography is not linked to better outcomes in patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest but do not have ST-segment elevation on an initial ECG, ...

Morton Kern, MD, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in cardiology. Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of ...

Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

Immediate coronary angiography for resuscitated cardiac arrest patients without signs of heart attack doesn't help, the COACT trial showed at the American College of Cardiology annual meeting in New ...

Doctors are now able to image the heart and coronary arteries with a CT scan, avoiding in some cases the need for an invasive test that involves snaking a catheter through the arteries themselves.

A new single-plane digital subtraction angiogram cath lab was inaugurated at the cardiology department of Kilpauk Medical College (KMC) on Wednesday by C Vijaya Baskar, minister for health and family ...

Trichy: The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Government Hospital has treated 50 patients with heart conditions since the cath lab at the hospital started functioning. Hospital administration said at a ...

Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan will start a cath lab where cardiac procedures like angioplasty and angiogram will be performed at a cost less than at corporate hospitals, the authorities said on ...