In patients with chest pain presenting to the emergency department (ED), further cardiac testing within 30 days is associated with an increase in invasive coronary angiography and revascularization ...

The vast majority of patients who present to an emergency department (ED) with chest pain in the absence of MI should not undergo immediate further testing given their low risk of future MI, according ...

February 12, 2010 — A coronary artery calcium score (CACS) of 0 can identify patients with chest pain who can be safely discharged from the emergency department (ED) without the need for further ...

Chest pain may still be angina even when coronary angiogram testing shows the main heart arteries look clear. Using stress ...

A machine learning system can determine with near-perfect accuracy when further cardiac imaging tests are not necessary, saving patients and physicians time and money, according to research presented ...

In 2010, the American Heart Association reaffirmed the traditionally taught approach to the evaluation of patients with low-risk chest pain with a scientific statement [1] indicating that these ...

The new test measures a protein called cystatin C. The older and still standard method for assessing the health of the kidney ...

For people with stable chest pain, a personalized "precision" testing approach led to more efficient evaluations for heart disease risk and improved diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease ...

Every day, a slew of previously healthy people experience chest pains and go to the emergency room. But a whole range of events can then follow; some of these people may be having a heart attack and ...

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Chest X-rays "could provide a rapid, cost-effective diagnosis of COVID-19," a team of radiologists at Louisiana State University Health New Orleans found, Science Daily reports. When cases were ...

Current cardiac screening tools used to prevent heart attacks fail to identify nearly half of the people who are actually at ...