This screening test measures how well blood flows through your heart. It may be used to diagnose coronary artery disease or to assess damage caused by a heart attack. Share on Pinterest JazzIRT/Getty ...

December 11, 2006 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a polytetrafluoroethylene-heparin vascular graft for use in the treatment of peripheral artery disease, a myocardial ...

Contrast-enhanced MRI is better than SPECT in detecting heart damage in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease that can lead to sudden death in young patients. SPECT nuclear medicine ...

Heart disease is a nasty enough problem. It would be nice if the tests you have to go through just to get your diagnosis didn’t cause so much unpleasantness of their own. Now they may not have to, ...

Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil’s city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...

Low-dose stress 99m technetium tetrofosmin CZT imaging 4.2 Rubidium stress/rest PET 2.3 CT: Computed tomography; CZT: Cadmium zinc telluride; PA: Posteroanterior; SPECT: Single-photon emission ...

Bayer, looking to bolster its position in both imaging and cardiac medicine, struck a deal to snap up two experimental imaging agents and thereby enter the diagnostic tracers development space. | ...