A view of GE Healthcare's volume max, or Vmax, which allows for nearly triple the frame rate speeds on 3-D TEE in a single beat over previous generation systems.
Feature | Cardiovascular Ultrasound | Dave Fornell, Editor

The higher expense and lower frame rates of 3-D cardiac ultrasound systems have limited their adoption over the past ...

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

January 31, 2019 — Nearly half (48 percent, 121.5 million in 2016) of all adults in the United States have some type of ...

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News | Cath Lab

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a novel signaling pathway that promotes healing after a heart attack. The study, published in Cell Metabolism, demonstrates for the first time that the metabolism of dead heart cells by macrophages reprograms the immune cells to launch an anti-inflammatory response and stimulate tissue repair.

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News | Congenital Heart

Rising temperatures stemming from global climate change may increase the number of infants born with congenital heart defects (CHD) in the U.S. over the next two decades, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.1 This may also result in as many as 7,000 additional cases over an 11 year-period in eight representative states — Arkansas, Texas, California, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia, New York and Utah.

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Rivaroxaban is among four new oral anticoagulants (NOAC) now recommended by atrial fibrillation guidelines over the old standard of warfarin.
Feature | Atrial Fibrillation

January 30, 2019 — Updated atrial fibrillation (AFib) treatment guidelines released this week now recommend new oral ...

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The Boston Scientific Eluvia self-expanding, drug-eluting peripheral stent. It outperformed the Cook Zilver stent in the IMPERIAL Trial presented at TCT 2018.
Feature | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) | Dave Fornell, Editor

In recent years, there has been a lot of focus by vendors on developing better stenting technologies to treat peripheral ...

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Technology | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Magnetom Lumina 3 Tesla (3T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner from Siemens Healthineers.

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Technology | Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO)

XableCath Inc., announced that its XableCath blunt and abrasion tip catheters were cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as peripheral crossing catheters. The catheters have been safely and successfully used to cross challenging lesions in both arterial chronic total occlusions (CTOs) and chronic obstructive venous lesions. The recent crossing FDA clearance adds to the previous clearances for endovascular support.

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Thubrikar Aortic Valve Inc. announced the first human implant of the Optimum TAV using their transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system.

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News | Heart Valve Technology

LivaNova PLC announced the publication of three separate studies highlighting the performance of its sutureless aortic valve, Perceval.

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The Medtronic Resolute Integrity drug-eluting stent is among the top three stents on the U.S. market. Outcomes for these stents are very similar, so the stents have largely become a commodity product purchased on price rather than clinical data. Stent advances and new stent technologies.
Feature | Stents | Dave Fornell, Editor

There was a lot of hype and high hopes pinned on bioresorbable stent technologies as the way of the future two years ago ...

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Videos | Artificial Intelligence

DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most interesting new artificial intelligence (AI) imaging ...

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News | Cardio-oncology

The American College of Cardiology host the third Advancing the Cardiovascular Care of the Oncology Patient course in Washington on Jan. 25-27, 2019. The event brought together top experts in both cardiology and oncology to review new and relevant science in this rapidly evolving field.

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News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems

Acutus Medical announced 12-month data from the UNCOVER-AF trial investigating the use of the AcQMap advanced cardiac imaging and mapping visualization system in persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation procedures. Results presented at the 24th Annual AF Symposium, Jan. 24-26 in Boston, show the use of AcQMap resulted in 72.5 percent single-procedure freedom from AF at 12 months. Rigorous post-ablation monitoring showed 89.6 percent of the single-procedure patients experienced zero episodes of AF.

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An example of multimodality image fusion with live angiography to enhance soft-tissue visualization during complex procedures. This example is from Siemen's new TrueFusion software released in 2018. Advances in angiography imaging.
Feature | Angiography | Dave Fornell, Editor

There are a few recent trends in X-ray angiography imaging systems that hospitals should be aware of if they are looking ...

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