Earlier in the month, Semeda Amegashie, a pregnant mother with a rare heart condition, underwent an innovative, minimally invasive surgery at the University of Connecticut Pam and Jim Calhoun ...

» Is there a relationship between staff dose and patient dose in fluoroscopy? Yes. Reducing patient dose will lower staff doses too. However the opposite is not true as staff dose can be reduced by ...

People who undergo radiation-based tests and procedures after a heart attack may have a heightened risk of developing cancer down the road, a study published Monday suggests. Researchers found that ...

Imagine a GPS-type system that maps the heart. That’s the technology that heart surgeons are increasingly using to navigate the heart and its chambers, reducing radiation from X-rays in the process.

During structural heart procedures, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) operators are exposed to a dose of radiation that is comparable to that of the primary operator, but the installation of a ...

A technique to treat an irregular heartbeat that limits or eliminates patients' exposure to radiation should be more widely adopted by physicians, NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine ...