Latest X-rays improve chest pain diagnosis

Originally published: March 11, 2012 8:39 PM
Updated: March 11, 2012 10:53 PM
By DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@newsday.com

Photo credit: Nancy Borowick | Dr. Jennifer Malpeso and Dr. Sanjay Doddamani speak with a patient before having a scan done with the new 320-multi slice cardiac CT angiography machine in the Emergency Department at the hospital in East Meadow. (Feb. 24, 2012)

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Chest pain -- sometimes a telltale signal of a heart attack -- is becoming easier to diagnose at two Long Island medical centers where sophisticated X-ray technology obtains multiple cardiac images in less than a second.

Nassau University Medical Center and Stony Brook University have turned to multimillion-dollar CT scanning to quickly distinguish heart attacks from other causes of chest...

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