Authors of a recent review shared expert insights and tips for conducting cardiac catheterization procedures to diagnose ...

Background: Pulmonary Artery Elastance (PAE) is an echocardiographic value commonly calculated in Heart Failure (HF) patients. It is presumed to be associated with mortality and adverse outcomes. We ...

A solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) is an isolated lung growth surrounded by normal tissue. Most SPNs are benign (not cancerous) when they're diagnosed. However, some nodules can enlarge and change over ...

Catheterization is particularly useful in the diagnosis of occult systemic to pulmonary shunts, congenital heart disease, and distal pulmonary artery stenosis.

In both cases the anatomic lesion producing the reversal of blood flow was a stenosis of the left subclavian artery proximal to the origin of the vertebral artery. The cause of the reversed flow ...

A quantitative flow ratio (QFR)-guided strategy did not provide the same prognostic benefits as a fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided strategy for patients with intermediate coronary stenosis, based ...

In none of the patients was there evidence of any associated etiologic factor such as coronary-artery disease, rheumatic heart disease, hypertension or thyrotoxicosis. Table 3 Types of Pulmonary ...

Patients with coronary artery disease and ≥1 lesion with intermediate stenosis were randomized in 1:1 fashion to functional testing with QFR (Medis Suite QAngio XA-3D QFR system, n = 1,008) or FFR (n ...

More information: Philippe Généreux et al, Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis, New England Journal of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2405880 ...