New scan that could diagnose heart disease instead of invasive surgery hailed as 'game changer’
07.04.2024 - 20:25
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A scan using equipment available in most hospitals could be a 'game changer' in diagnosing heart disease instead of the traditional route of invasive surgery.
A clinical trial that saw high resolution scanning technology used to identity heart disease has been hailed as a potential game changer for cardiac treatment. A team at the University of Galway used CT-scan imagery to pinpoint coronary artery disease and blockages as an alternative to traditional angiographs – an invasive procedure that involves the puncturing of blood vessels, insertion of cables and use of dyes.
The team based at the University’s CORRIB Core Lab analysed the images taken from patients in trial hospitals in the US and Europe. The research was published on Sunday in the European Heart Journal.
The risk of an early death due to a heart or circulatory disease is greater in Manchester than anywhere else in England and Wales. The latest figures show that more than 39,000 people in the UK died before their 75th birthday from cardiovascular conditions including heart attacks, coronary heart disease, and stroke in 2022 - an average of 750 people each week.
That figure is the highest annual total since 2008. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) says this worrying backward trend is broadly mirrored in its age-standardised premature death rates.
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It found that the approach was 99.1 per cent feasible, with the cardiac CT scanning offering good diagnostic accuracy without the need for invasive diagnostic catheterisation. The trial was sponsored by the University of Galway and funded by GE Healthcare, based in Chicago, and HeartFlow, based in Redwood City,
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