Stable patients undergoing elective catheterization in Ontario, Canada, were 50% more likely to be diagnosed with obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) than their counterparts in New York State ...

The heart is an intricate plumbing system of valves, pumps and pipelike vessels which control the flow of blood throughout the body, and the doctors who specialize in its function, diagnosis and ...

If your doctor suspects the presence of a cardiovascular condition, he or she may suggest getting a cardiac catheterization, or coronary angiogram. Cardiac catheterization is an imaging procedure ...

Transradial catheterization--when a clinician inserts a long thin tube through the radial artery in the arm--is commonly used to diagnose and treat certain heart conditions. A recent analysis of ...

(HealthDay)—The most frequent procedure performed during hospitalization in 2010 was blood transfusion, which was common among all age groups except for infants, according to the Agency for Healthcare ...

Henry Ford Health Interventional cardiologists William O'Neill, M.D., and Khaldoon Alaswad, M.D., took a page out of the medical history books by performing a new coronary bypass procedure replicated ...