Dear Dr. Roach: I read your recent column about the 30-year-old pregnant woman who had a “heart attack” while working out in a spin class. She fell into a coma and was found to have a “congenital ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Data regarding clinical outcomes after optical coherence tomography (OCT)–guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as compared with angiography-guided PCI are limited. In this prospective, ...

Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...

For decades, the coronary angiogram has been considered the gold standard for detecting blocked arteries that cause a heart attack. When patients are told their angiogram is “normal”, it often brings ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stress MRI improves diagnosis of chest pain in patients with angina and nonobstructive CAD. Functional testing ...

Immediate coronary angiography might, in fact, be harmful for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) but without ST-segment elevation, according to a new Bayesian analysis combining ...