One of the ways that specialists can look at a patient's heart is through an echo, or an ultrasound of the heart.

To continue the discussion of a weak heart, congestive heart failure, it’s necessary to describe the main imaging tool used to establish the diagnosis. The echocardiogram is an elegant procedure that ...

Philips’ 3D intracardiac echocardiography catheter is ready for its close-up—its extreme, in vivo close-up, that is. A little less than a year after securing 510(k) clearance from the FDA, the ...

This new AI heart disease detector can’t be beat. Structural heart disease (SHD) refers to defects in the heart’s valves, wall or chambers that are present at birth or develop over time. These ...

Researchers learned early on in the pandemic that COVID-19 infections caused a range of complications throughout the body. The heart, specifically, was one organ at risk of experiencing complications, ...

The recommendation is included in the organization’s “Guidelines for the management of chronic coronary syndromes,” published Aug. 30 in the European Heart Journal. “Ultrasound contrast agents ...