Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans. In the United States, it's estimated that someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds. These are scary statistics, but there's one test that can give ...

A coronary calcium scan can reveal what’s going on inside the arteries in an easily accessible and inexpensive manner. So, ...

Coronary CT angiography for the suspected progression of known coronary artery disease in a 60-year-old female patient. Curved multiplanar reconstructions with 0.6- (yellow outline), 0.4- (blue ...

A newly developed, non-invasive scan that models coronary blood flow using images of the heart, AI algorithms and/or computational fluid dynamics can help identify which patients with coronary artery ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CT scans performed for non-CV reasons may show a patient has coronary artery calcium. Artificial intelligence ...

Atherosclerosis causes the smooth, elastic lining of the coronary arteries to become hard, stiff, and swollen because of plaque. These are deposits of calcium, fats, and abnormal inflammatory cells ...

Ultrahigh-spatial-resolution photon-counting detector CT improved assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD), allowing for reclassification to a lower disease category in 54% of patients, according ...

I lay on the bed of the CT scan at the Heart Hospital of Austin looking up at the ceiling as it moves into the CT tunnel. A voice through the speakers tells me to breathe in, hold my breath, then ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I recently had a CAT scan of my chest as an evaluation for pneumonia. I didn’t have pneumonia, but I got an unexpected high calcium score in my coronary arteries. Does the calcium I ...

A radiologist and public health expert breaks down what we know about President Trump's CT scan, and what this means for his ...