Fat attenuation index (FAI) CT imaging of the fat surrounding coronary arteries can show inflammation in the vessel wall and help pin-point vulnerable plaques. This also can show the reversal of inflammation due to drug therapies. The technology is being developed by the vendor Caristo, which has European CE mark and the company is seeking FDA clearance.
Ron Blankstein, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, explains recent advances in coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) technology.
This week in AJR, experts from a large, multisite health system detailed their efforts to preserve contrast supplies by implementing electronic health record (EHR) order entry-based interventions.
A cardiac CT scan being performed at Duly Healthcare in suburban Chicago in the spring of 2022. This is one of the first outpatient cardiology clinics in the U.S. to implement a CCTA program for screening non-acute chest pain patients and for structural heart evaluations. Read more in PHOTO GALLERY: Duly Health adopts outpatient cardiac CT as a standard of care.
With the elevation of cardiac CT to a 1A indication in the 2021 Chest Pain Guidelines, there has been a large amount of interest in starting coronary artery CT angiography (CCTA) programs.
Representative CT images from a lifetime never-smoker 64-year-old man (Figure A) and a lifetime never-smoker 63-year-old woman. Image courtesy of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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Differences in airway size, combined with increased urbanization and changes in smoking rates, can help explain the growing prevalence of COPD in women.
Since 2006, the FDA has recommended MRI screenings as a way to detect asymptomatic breast implant ruptures—but many patients seem unaware of or are actively ignoring the guidance.
Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) President Brian Ghoshhajra, MD, detailed three challenges he is making to SCCT members in the coming year.
The authors stated that their results should not deter providers from offering their patients radiotherapy treatment but rather encourage in-depth discussions and shared decisions pertaining to the best options.
