January 10th, 2014
ESC Spotlights Growing Problem of Radiation Exposure in Cardiology
Larry Husten, PHD
Both medical professionals and patients have a general sense that radiation used in medical imaging and procedures carries some danger, but they often underestimate the risk. And certainly most are unaware of the increasingly large proportion of the problem occurring during cardiology procedures. “Cardiologists today are the true contemporary radiologists,” said Eugenio Picano, lead author of […]
December 3rd, 2013
Estimating Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch for Patients Undergoing Bovine Pericardial AVR
Jyothy Puthumana, MD,MS
Jyothy Puthumana discusses his research group’s Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging study, for which they compared prosthesis-patient mismatch prevalence and its impact on survival.
December 2nd, 2013
Left Ventriculography: Procedural Variation Writ Large
Seth D Bilazarian, MD
Paul Heidereich discusses his research group’s study of variation in the use of left ventriculography at VA hospitals nationwide.
October 9th, 2013
Defining the “Appropriate Use” of Transthoracic Echo
Susan A Matulevicius, MD, MSCS
Susan Matulevicius discusses her study group’s analysis of the use of transthoracic echocardiography at a tertiary-care academic medical center.
August 30th, 2013
Will New Scanner Technology Reduce Radiation from CT Angiography?
Kavitha M Chinnaiyan, M.D., Gilbert L Raff, BS, MD and John Ryan, MD
Kavitha Chinnaiyan and Gilbert L. Raff discuss their study group’s nonrandomized investigation of using new scanner technology to reduce radiation from coronary CT angiography in the context of an ongoing quality-improvement program.
August 28th, 2013
American Heart Association Announces Late-Breaking Clinical Trials
Larry Husten, PHD
There are still a few days left in August, and the European Society of Cardiology meeting doesn’t start until this weekend in Amsterdam. Nevertheless, the American Heart Association has released the list of late-breaking clinical trials for its annual meeting in November. Late-Breaking Clinical Trials 1: Acute Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Care Sunday, Nov 17, 2013, 4:00 PM – 5:19 PM […]
August 19th, 2013
Look Before Leaping to Conclusions About Bush’s Stent
Ajay J Kirtane, MD, SM
Ajay Kirtane shares his thoughts on the publicity surrounding Bush’s stent and what it means for the public perception of PCI.
August 11th, 2013
Radiation Exposure in the Cath Lab: A Radioactive Topic?
Reza Fazel, MD, MSc
How aware are you of the risks of radiation exposure from fluoroscopic procedures?
July 22nd, 2013
Studies Raise Questions About Echocardiography
Larry Husten, PHD
Echocardiography is a safe, noninvasive tool to image the heart without the use of radiation. For this reason it has become the most frequently used method to look at the heart for a wide variety of medical indications. Now two new studies suggest that, despite its popularity, transthoracic echocardiography is often not beneficial. One study […]
July 18th, 2013
A Glimpse of the Future of Cardiology, Including Star Wars Holograms
Larry Husten, PHD
Goodbye flat images. Hello holography. Sometime in the not-too-far-distant future cardiologists may work with projected 3D holograms of the heart instead of images on a flat screen. And this is just the beginning of a technology-driven transformation of cardiology. That’s the vision of Mount Sinai’s Partho Sengupta, who delivered a widely praised technology-gone-wild lecture at the annual […]
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