Toronto, ON - Use of ultrasound contrast agents during stress echocardiography is safe, even in patients with higher baseline risk factors, a new study suggests [1]. The findings add fresh support to ...

Cardiovascular medicine is changing. It is progressively becoming more and more disease-based for diagnosis and therapy with the development of multidisciplinary meetings, often image guided. Some of ...

A Saint Louis University cardiologist called upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today to reconsider a strong warning it recently placed on a diagnostic tool, stating that the warning ...

A stress echocardiography, also called an echocardiography stress test or stress echo, is a procedure that determines how well your heart and blood vessels are working. During a stress ...

ST. LOUIS – New research from Saint Louis University School of Medicine may give doctors a way to predict life-threatening heart problems in women. The team studied 421 diabetic women between 49 and ...

A stress echocardiogram is an imaging test that monitors the functioning of the heart by inducing a stress test, a stimulus that facilitates a stressful environment within the heart. Through ...

For patients presenting to the emergency department with acute chest pain but negative biomarkers for MI, assessment with stress echocardiography is safe and associated with fewer hospitalizations and ...

An echocardiogram, or echo, is a test that helps doctors check on your heart health. The test, which is a kind of ultrasound, uses harmless sound waves to create a real-time moving picture of your ...

If taking your dog out for a walk or getting up the stairs feels harder than normal, your doctor may order something called a stress test. And the process is a bit different than you might expect. A ...

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scans are an excellent tool for better defining coronary heart disease risk in many individuals. In light of the recent American College of Cardiology/American Heart ...