For decades, a clean coronary angiogram has been considered reassuring, almost synonymous with a healthy heart. But cardiologists are now warning that this assumption can be dangerously misleading. A ...

TORONTO, ON — New data from Ontario show that almost 42% of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) who underwent a diagnostic angiogram within a 17-hospital network were found to have ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Yet another study, this one investigating the VA healthcare system in the US, has found wide variations between hospitals in terms of how many of the angiograms they perform turn up ...

Did this woman’s additional bouts of pain warrant emergent repeat of previously negative angiography? Ms. P, a 54-year-old African American with a known history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and ...

Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...