When doing open-heart surgery, the surgeon needs a still heart and lungs to work. The patient still needs oxygen circulated through the bloodstream to survive. Thus, cardiovascular perfusionists (also ...

The emerging advantages of positron-emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for coronary artery disease (CAD) diagnosis and assessment of cardiovascular event risk has prompted ...

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death globally. One of the most common tools used to diagnose and monitor heart disease, myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by single photon emission ...

The much-anticipated Flyrcado™ (flurpiridaz F 18) injection, a first-of-its-kind unit dose positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging agent for the detection of coronary artery disease, ...

In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused simply because transplant teams couldn't get the organ to a recipient in time.

The "rapid recovery with extended ultraoxygenated preservation" (REUP) technique, which does not require pre-implant donor ...