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Doctors may soon be able to tell just how sick a heart failure patient really is by using a routine MRI scan, thanks to new ...

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an appropriate non-invasive procedure for functional diagnostics in patients who, ...

BALTIMORE, May 11 (UPI) --A 3D heart assessment, based on imaging of individual patients, was shown to be more accurate at predicting heart arrhythmia and sudden cardiac arrest than other standard ...

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging may help physicians make decisions about which patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis require an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Non-invasive cardiac diagnostic company Sensydia announced today that it was awarded a Fast-Track Small Business grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ...

Cachexia is common in cancer, yet it is poorly understood in noncancer diagnoses. In this article, Carlson and Dahlin review cancer cachexia in cardiac disease. The definition, pathophysiology, and ...

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH: Let me turn now to Dr Navar to discuss what I think is an important part of the discussion. She’s done a lot of work on this. How do we actually estimate patients’ risk for ...

About one-third of patients who die within 1 year after an acute coronary syndrome do so from sudden cardiac death, but investigators say using a risk calculator may help pinpoint those most at risk. ...