Your heart harbors a secret: a layer of fat that can either protect it or potentially contribute to its demise. Now, ...

PESHAWAR: Peshawar Institute of Cardiology (PIC), the only dedicated cardiac hospital in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa announced the ...

Everyone knows the health risks of carrying too much fat around the waist and hips, but UVA Health scientists are developing a noninvasive way to assess the health risks of unseen fat around the heart ...

UVA researchers are using a new MRI technique to analyze fat around the heart, helping identify at-risk patients and improve ...

Analyzing this tissue could let doctors identify patients at greatest risk for potentially deadly cardiac problems such ... "Using this new MRI technique, we now for the very first time have ...

Dr. Roderic Pettigrew has tapped into engineering to improve medicine. He is a finalist for 2024 Texan of the Year.

Cardiac imaging consists of taking pictures of the heart and surrounding structures. It helps physicians learn more about a ...

MRI-derived septal ECC is effective in detecting early cardiac dysfunction in DMD, surpassing traditional measures like LVEF. Cine DENSE MRI revealed reduced septal ECC in patients with DMD ...

Echocardiograms, which are about 90% effective at finding HCM, are the first-line standard when it comes to diagnosing the ...

Cardiovascular imaging is critical for understanding and managing sex-specific heart disease differences in women.

have issued guidelines stating that a careful risk/benefit must be established and that cardiac implantable devices remain a relative contraindication to MRI. [1] According to the AHA general ...