Although contrast agents have an essential role in non-invasive imaging techniques, potential side effects limit their use. For example, both low- and iso-osmolar iodinated contrast media used in ...

The recommendation is included in the organization’s “Guidelines for the management of chronic coronary syndromes,” published Aug. 30 in the European Heart Journal. “Ultrasound contrast agents ...

Transthoracic echocardiography, the most common type of echocardiogram, uses a transducer on a person’s chest to send high frequency ultrasound waves through the chest wall to the heart to create ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Lumason (sulfur hexafluoride lipid-type A microspheres; Bracco Diagnostics Inc.), an ultrasound enhancing agent, for use in echocardiography to ...

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 ...

N. BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic medical imaging, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Transthoracic echocardiography utilizes both visual (qualitative) and quantitative tools to evaluate cardiac structure and function Traditional techniques, such as two-dimensional and Doppler imaging, ...

A cardiologist has just called upon the US Food and Drug Administration to reconsider a strong warning it recently placed on a diagnostic tool, stating that the warning could prevent doctors from ...

ST. LOUIS – 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 ...