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October 18, 2007 - Guerbet will feature at TCT 2007 its x-ray contrast agent, Oxilan (ioxilan) injection, a contrast ...

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October 18, 2007 – XTENT Inc. announced that two-year data from the CUSTOM I trial and 1-year data from the CUSTOM II ...

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October 18, 2007 - Combining all of the features of the ACIST CMS and Voyager systems onto one platform, the ACIST CVi ...

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October 18, 2007 - Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. is showcasing its suite of workflow and storage enhancements for ...

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October 18, 2007 - At TCT 2007, Philips Medical Systems is presenting two live interventional cases with the University ...

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The Philips Step and Shoot Cardiac solution has reportedly been shown to save up to 80 percent of the dose in a cardiac exam. As the newest cardiac imaging innovation for the Philips Brilliance CT 64-channel scanner, it provides high quality CT images at low radiation dose. An axial prospective ECG-gated acquisition technique reportedly achieves full heart coverage within a short breath-hold.

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October 17, 2007 — Patients with heart disease who undergo coronary angioplasty have an equivalent risk of death and heart attack as patients who undergo coronary bypass surgery, according to Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.

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The FLAIR Endovascular Stent Graft treats stenoses (narrowing) at the venous anastomosis of synthetic arteriovenous (AV) grafts in hemodialysis patients to increase blood flow.

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October 17, 2007 - Positron Corp. introduced its new dedicated-Cardiac PET system, Attrius, at the annual meeting of the ...

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The Toshiba Aquilion CT line’s product platform design reportedly allows for all customers to benefit from Toshiba’s ...

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October 17, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. will be presenting safety and efficacy data on its TAXUS Express2 and TAXUS ...

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Agfa HealthCare’s DX-S reportedly fills the gap in the current range of Digital Radiography Solutions by providing a ...

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October 17, 2007 - CryoCor, Inc., a medical device company focused on the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, announced today that CryoCath Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit against CryoCor in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware alleging that CryoCor infringes several of CryoCath’s U.S. patents.

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The FDA gave ZOLL Medical Corp., a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, clearance to market and sell the ZOLL AED Pro with See-Thru CPR technology, which is designed to help minimize interruptions in CPR. ZOLL aims to comply with a key recommendation of the American Heart Association’s Guidelines for Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

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October 17, 2007 - After a three-week trial, a jury rendered a verdict of "willful" patent infringement in a dispute filed against CHF Technologies, Inc., d/b/a BioVentrix, after Chase Medical sued BioVentrix alleging its Blue Egg Sizer, a hollow, blue silicone device used to guide surgeons in surgically resizing the heart, infringed patents held by Chase.

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