Newer cardiac imaging machines effective in detecting coronary artery stenosis

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 10:35 in Health & Medicine

The first multicenter study of the accuracy of some of the latest cardiac imaging technology found it was 99 percent as effective in ruling out obstructive coronary artery stenosis - or narrowing of these arteries - as the more expensive and invasive coronary angiography traditionally used by physicians, according to research published online by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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