Toshiba America Medical Systems has launched myimagingexam.com, an educational resource for patients receiving diagnostic imaging exams.

Major adverse coronary events (MACE) are a complication in cardiac caths and PCI with substantial resource utilization and costs, according to a study presented at American Heart Associations Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Scientific Sessions in Washington, D.C., last week.

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) appears to be most valuable in patients with intermediate pretest probability of coronary artery disease, because the test can distinguish which of these patients need invasive angiography, according to an article published May 18 online in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

AngioDynamics has launched the first member of its new generation of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) for procedures involving the use of CT contrast media, the Morpheus Smart PICC triple lumen CT PICC.

Interpreting coronary CT angiography (CCTA) images on mobile handheld devices equipped with medical image evaluation software provides high quality assessments in the detection of coronary artery stenosis; however, security and privacy must be maintained, a study published in the May edition of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging found.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston has become the first recipient of CAE Healthcares transthoracic echocardiography simulator, CAE VIMEDIX.

The use of a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score in addition to traditional risk factors was determined to be associated with improved prediction of heart disease risk, and placed more individuals in the most extreme risk categories, said a study published April 28 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

If subjects are excluded from further screening because they are in the Framingham low-risk category, almost two-thirds of women and a quarter of men with substantial atherosclerosis will be missed, wrote the authors of a study that appears in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.