More Convenient Access to Imaging Exams Can Improve Care, Boost Clinician and Staff Productivity

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), a leading organization for interventional cardiologists, today released a document recommending the adoption of stringent quality standards by those who perform percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in hospitals not equipped for cardiac surgery.

Cardiologists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are helping to lead a large international study involving 83 other sites that will test 3,000 patients in an effort to determine whether exercise really is good for heart failure patients.

Unexplained chest pain after a heart attack might be more dangerous than many physicians originally think.

An emulsion of olive oil, egg yolk and glycerine might be just the recipe to keep heart patients away from the operating room and cardiac bypass surgery.

Georgia Tech/Emory technology could help surgeons plan optimum surgery for each child's congenital heart defect

It looks, contracts and responds almost like natural heart muscle even though it was grown in the lab. And it brings scientists another step closer to the goal of creating replacement parts for damaged human hearts, or eventually growing an entirely new heart from just a spoonful of loose heart cells.

Interventional cardiologist urges panel to consider DES benefits when evaluating risks of late blood clot formation