As Heart Awareness Month unfolds, local cardiologist Dr. Khaled Khalaf sheds light on the significance of knowing your ...

This Valentine’s Day, as we exchange stylised hearts in celebration of love, we might pause to remember that the power of the ...

New medical technology at Cranberry Township’s UPMC Passavant is offering an expedited way to detect heart-related ailments.

Next, in order to access the relevant intracerebral vessel, usually predefined by a CT angiogram (CTA), a 5F shaped diagnostic ... injection of radiopaque contrast to define and roadmap the anatomy, ...

The role of ‘stand-alone’ coronary angiography (CAG) in the management of patients ... Good opacification of the vessel. Acquisition over at least four cardiac cycles. Minimal adjustment of table ...

We report a case of a 1-year-old patient with mixed PS treated with endovascular occlusion under digital subtraction angiography ... (3D reconstruction of the heart and airways) revealed four tortuous ...

The procedure accesses a blood vessel ... only the heart), balloon angioplasty has come to describe any intervention of its sort performed percutaneously (through a small puncture or incision) on any ...

4 CT = computed tomography; ECG = electrocardiogram; HR = heart rate ... between the vessel and lumen volumes in the studied region. Importantly, these CCTA-based definitions may differ from those ...

A special dye injection test called fluorescein angiography may also be performed to see how the blood circulates inside the retina. This is used to check if the vessels affected by ... of analyzing ...

A total of 840 patients were randomized (1:1 open-label study) to either undergo immediate PCI (n = 418) of the nonculprit lesion or staged intervention within 19-45 days after PCI of the culprit ...

Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...