"A scan at a local hospital showed a large cyst in her chest, pressing against the left atrium of the heart. A detailed CT scan confirmed that the growth was dangerously close to major blood ...

In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving ...

Gwinnett County State Court jurors returned a $15.5 million verdict to the estate of a patient who became quadriplegic after ...

If you have an irregular heartbeat caused by atrial fibrillation ... Chest X-rays and chest CT. These noninvasive imaging tests create pictures of your heart. A CT scan is a type of X-ray that ...

A higher diameter ratio on CT scans between the right ventricle and left ... The diameter of the right ventricle and right atrium (the heart’s upper chamber), the right and left ventricles (RV/LV) ...

Patients undergoing atrial fibrillation (AFib ... higher CHA 2 DS 2-VASc score and left ventricular dysfunction. Meanwhile, patients with preprocedural CT, paroxysmal AFib, sleep apnea and the use of ...

Displacement boundary conditions were also applied to the papillary muscles to account for left ventricular beating ... After reformatting the angio-CT scans, the presence of mitral annulus ...

A hot potato: A new study from UC San Francisco is raising alarms about the widespread use of computed tomography (CT) scans in the United States, warning that the technology may be responsible ...

A recent study in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals that CT scans, while vital for diagnosis, may elevate cancer risk due to radiation exposure. With CT scan usage up 30% since 2007, experts estimate ...

CT scans are one of the most effective medical tools available today, providing an in-depth look inside the human body to spot tumors, detect brain bleeds and other ailments. But a new study ...

Your next computed tomography, or CT, scan might be riskier than commonly assumed. A study out today calculates that CT scans are contributing to a substantially greater share of cancer cases than ...