Preventive screening for cardiovascular and related diseases is evolving with updated coding guidelines, coverage rules, and diagnostic innovations. From Medicare’s Physician Fee Schedule to portable ...

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends echocardiographic screening and secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic ...

A Concordia-led team of researchers has developed a new AI-driven robotic system that can perform cardiac ultrasound scans ...

When implanting a subcutaneous ICD, routine defibrillation testing could be safely skipped when using a scoring system to ...

The PRAETORIAN score is a noninvasive test that gives a score from 30 to 900, which can be interpreted as low risk (<90 ...

Researchers based at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that an AI reasoning model, ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham Heart and Vascular Institute and collaborators have developed and validated a new genetic risk test that can estimate a person's inherited risk for eight common ...

Background Secondary tricuspid regurgitation (TR) often develops or persists following left-sided valve surgery. However, its ...

Background Patients with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) frequently develop late complications despite early surgical ...

If your heart is beating quickly from an uphill walk to the tee box, don’t worry, our MythBusters test showed it might have a negligible effect. Heart pounding from pressure? That’s entirely different ...

During a recent congressional oversight visit to a migrant detention facility in San Benito, Texas, where pregnant youth are ...

Forty-three cardiology and electrophysiology codes — spanning catheter ablations, coronary revascularization procedures, electrophysiologic evaluations, heart failure management techniques and ...