Artificial Intelligence in medical imaging was the top trend and buzz at RSNA 2018.
Feature | Artificial Intelligence | Dave Fornell, Editor

Artificial intelligence (AI) was by far the hottest trend discussed in sessions and across the expo floor at the world's ...

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News | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

Philips announced that NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has chosen to implement the company’s IntelliSpace Enterprise Edition solution across its hospitals and facilities. In a 10-year agreement, IntelliSpace Enterprise Edition will provide the health system with access to Philips’ full suite of informatics solutions across radiology, cardiology and analytics to help improve efficiencies and care delivery.

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News | Thrombectomy Devices

Cerenovus, of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, recently launched the EXCELLENT Registry to collect and analyze stroke-inducing blood clots removed from the brain with its Embotrap II Revascularization Device. The company also announced European CE Mark approval for the Geometric Clot Extractor (GCE) Revascularization Device.

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News | Cath Lab

Shockwave Medical Inc. has initiated its U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) study – DISRUPT CAD III – for the use of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) in heavily calcified coronary arteries. IVL is a lesion preparation tool designed to fracture problematic calcium using sonic pressure waves in order to facilitate stent delivery, deployment and expansion.

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News | Structural Heart Occluders

Abbott announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Amplatzer Piccolo Occluder to treat patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). The company calls it the world's first medical device that can be implanted in the tiniest babies (weighing as little as two pounds) using a minimally invasive procedure to treat PDA. The Amplatzer Piccolo, a device even smaller than a small pea, now offers hope to premature infants and newborns who need corrective treatment, and who may be non-responsive to medical management and high risk to undergo corrective surgery.

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Boston Scientific Corp. and Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that the companies have reached an agreement to settle all outstanding patent disputes between the companies in all venues around the world. All pending cases or appeals in courts and patent offices between the two companies will be dismissed, and the parties will not litigate patent disputes related to current portfolios of transcatheter aortic valves, certain mitral valve repair devices, and left atrial appendage closure devices. Any injunctions currently in place will be lifted.

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The implantation of a MitraClip is guided under live transesophageal echo (TEE). This image shows the operator moving the open clip into position and engaging the mitral valve leaflets. The clip appears as a arrowhead shape in the ultrasound with the leaflets coming off each side. Photo from a MitraClip procedure at the University of Colorado Hospital. Dr. Dominick Wiktor. The TEE is from a Philips Epiq system.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Allen Atchley, M.D., FACC, The Chattanooga Heart Institute

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is one of the most common types of heart valve diseases in the United States, affecting ...

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Researchers raised the question whether an economic benefit should be assessed in FDA reviews. A large amount of the bill for atrial fibrillation catheter ablation procedures is the cost of the mapping and ablation catheters.
Feature | Cardiovascular Business | Philip Jacobs, DPhil, Ilke Akpinar, M.D., Thanh Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D., Rupinder Sandhu, M.D., and Lars Thording Ph.D.

In an age when everything in medicine is now looked at though a cost vs. benefit analysis and U.S. government healthcare ...

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The startup company Genetesis introduced a new cardiac imaging modalityit calls magnetocardiography. The scanner creates images from the biomagnetic activity of the heart, using the polarization and depolarization of the heart during the cardiac cycle. This was at AHA.18, AHA 2018 - the American Heart Association annual meeting
Feature | AHA | Dave Fornell, Editor

Here are a few of the takeaways from the clinical studies presented and new technology shown on the exhibit floor at the ...

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An implanted ICD showing its three venous leads. These multiple CRT leads can cause issues when they need to be replaced and are abandoned with new leads put over them in the SVC, which may require lead extraction.
Feature | EP Lab | Dave Fornell, Editor

To extract or abandon broken or infected implantable, venous electrophysiology (EP) device leads has been a debate for ...

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News | Womens Cardiovascular Health

Research suggests that a gene that governs the body’s biological (circadian) clock acts differently in males versus females and may protect females from heart disease. The study is the first to analyze circadian blood pressure rhythms in female mice. The research was published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology — Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

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News | Pharmaceuticals

January 10, 2019 — Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc. is conducting a voluntary recall of 80 lots of Amlodipine Valsartan Tablets ...

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News | Population Health

Mobile app data collection can bring access to more potential clinical study participants, reduce clinical study timeframes and create more comprehensive sample sizes, according to research published in Survey Practice.

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