Conference Coverage

This channel highlights DAIC's coverage of numerous key cardiology and medical imaging conferences each year. These include ACC, AHA, ASE, ASNC, EuroPCR, ECR, HIMSS, HRS, RSNA, SCAI, SCCT, TCT, and VIVA.

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) released an updated expert consensus statement for the “SCAI Best Practices for Transradial Angiography and Intervention.”

News | Radial Access

SCAI Updates Expert Consensus Statement on Best Practices for Transradial Access

January 15, 2020 — The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) released an updated expert ...

January 15, 2020

Videos | RSNA

VIDEO: Editors Choice of the Most Innovative New Medical Imaging Technology at RSNA 2019

DAIC/ITN Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most innovative new medical imaging technologies displayed on ...

January 13, 2020

The SCCT Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Cardiovascular CT meeting will be held in New York City at the Marriott East Side, April 24-26, 2020. #SCCT

News | Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Chief Medical Officer to Speak at SCCT Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac CT Meeting

January 9, 2020 — Maulik Majmudar, M.D., chief medical officer at Amazon will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming ...

January 09, 2020

Figure 1 from the new ASE ischemia cardiac ultrasound imaging guidelines, showing a side-by-side views of apical 4- and 2-chamber images, at rest and immediately post-exercise. In the four-chamber view, the left ventricle is shown on the left-hand side of the screen. With exercise, the echocardiogram shows the LV cavity dilates (right quadrants) and there are regional wall motion abnormalities in the LAD territory.

News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

New Guidelines for Stress Echocardiography in Ischemic Heart Disease

January 7, 2020 — The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) has updated its guidelines for using echocardiography ...

January 07, 2020

Videos | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

VIDEO: Use of Cardiac MRI in Congenital and Women's Heart Disease

Karen Ordovas, M.D., MAS, professor of radiology and cardiology at the University of California San Francisco (UCFS) ...

January 06, 2020

People watch the live presentation of the five-year EXCEL Trial data by Gregg Stone, M.D., in the Abbott booth at TCT 2019. Abbott makes the Xience stent used in the trial, which compared equally with long-term CABG surgical outcomes. In early December 2019, leaders of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) withdrew their support for European practice guidelines that endorse the use of coronary stents in many patients with left main coronary artery disease.

News | Cath Lab | Dave Fornell, Editor

EXCEL Trial Authors Say European Surgery Society Claims of Bad Science Are Groundless

January 2, 2020 — In early December 2019, leaders of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) withdre ...

January 02, 2020

News | Pharmaceuticals

Study Finds Drug Therapy for High Triglycerides to Have a Sustained Effect Using Low Dosages

December 30, 2019 — A drug therapy targeting the production of a protein produced by the liver has led to sustained and ...

December 30, 2019

Top Cardiology New in 2019 From the European Society of Cardioloigy (ESC)

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

Top Cardiology News in 2019 From the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

Environmental and lifestyle issues were popular this year, with pick up from both European Society of Cardiology (ESC) j ...

December 23, 2019

Videos | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

VIDEO: Advances in Cardiac MRI Technology

James Carr, M.D., chair of the Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, and incoming 2020 President of the Soci ...

December 20, 2019

Videos | Radiation Dose Management

VIDEO: Radiation From Medical Imaging in U.S. Dropped Over Past Decade

Mahadevappa Mahesh, Ph.D., chief of medical physicist and professor of radiology and medical physics, Johns Hopkins ...

December 19, 2019

Videos | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

VIDEO: Augmented Reality Aids TEE Training By Showing Anatomy and Ultrasound Orientation

This is an example of an augmented reality (AR) training system for transesophageal echo (TEE) created by the simulation ...

December 19, 2019

Videos | RSNA

VIDEO: Key Medical Imaging Technology Trends at the 2019 RSNA

DAIC Editor Dave Fornell and Imaging Technology News (ITN) Consulting Editor Greg Freiherr offer a post-game report on ...

December 18, 2019

The most popular content in the month of November on DAIC was by far the data from the late-breaking trials from the American Herart Association (AHA) 2019 meeting. The second item on this month's list is an overview of key heart failure takeaways from AHA by Nasrien Ibrahim, M.D., associate director of resynchronization and advanced cardiac therapeutics at Massachusetts General Hospital. Photo by Scott Morgan/AHA.

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December 16, 2019 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) ...

December 17, 2019

DiA’s novel solution leverages AI to transform the way clinicians capture and analyze ultrasound images

News | Cardiac Imaging

DiA Joins with IBM Watson Health to Arm Clinicians with its AI-powered Cardiac Ultrasound Software

December 9, 2019 — DiA Imaging Analysis Ltd., an IBM Alpha Zone Accelerator Alumni Startup, announces a collaboration ...

December 09, 2019

CAE Healthcare will showcase its mixed reality training solutions for practicing physicians and medical imaging companies for the first time at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2019 meeting. With technology platforms that integrate modeled human physiology into immersive, augmented reality environments, CAE Healthcare partners with vendors to deliver risk-free training solutions that meet the needs of physicians and equipment providers. #RSNA19 #RSNA2019

News | Virtual and Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality for Radiology and Cardiology Training Demonstrated at RSNA 2019

November 27, 2019 — CAE Healthcare will showcase its mixed reality training solutions for practicing physicians and ...

November 27, 2019