Videos | Artificial Intelligence

Rami Doukky, M.D., professor of medicine, preventative medicine and radiology, and chief of the Division of Cardiology ...

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Use of traditional Holter monitor leads can be an issue for patient compliance and comfort. The newer generation ambulatory cardiac monitors use an adhesive patch that sticks directly on the patient's chest and allows them to shower and go about daily activities without a belt mounted monitor or leads getting in the way. This is especially important for longer term monitoring of seven days or longer.
Sponsored Content | Feature | ECG

Advances in the technology of wearable cardiac monitors are improving both the experience of the patient and the ...

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News | Nuclear Imaging

Advancements in healthcare technology, particularly in the surgery category, have led to an increasing adoption of gamma cameras. Further, the numerous developments in radionucleotides are anticipated to favor the adoption of solid state cameras and mobile gamma cameras. These findings are presented in a new research study on the global mobile gamma cameras market by Future Market Insights (FMI).

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Videos | Heart Failure

William Abraham, M.D., FACC, professor of medicine and director of the division of cardiovascular medicine, The Ohio ...

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Videos | Intravascular Imaging

Ron Waksman, M.D., associate director of the division of cardiology and director of cardiovascular research and advanced ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Patients with heart failure and secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) who remained symptomatic despite maximally tolerated medical therapy demonstrated reduced rates of hospitalizations and death after being treated with the transcatheter MitraClip device. Patients in the randomized COAPT trial also showed improved quality-of-life and functional capacity.

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Technology | PET-CT

September 26, 2018 — Bruker recently announced the introduction of the new preclinical PET/CT Si78 scanner for whole ...

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News | Stents Drug Eluting

Positive 12-month data from the late-breaking IMPERIAL trial was presented at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference. This is the first head-to-head drug-eluting stent trial in the superficial femoral artery (SFA). Results were also presented at the annual Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) congress in Lisbon, Portugal. The clinical findings will be published in The Lancet.

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News | Intravascular Imaging

September 25, 2018 – New data demonstrate the correlation between the presence of non-flow-limiting, non-intervened-upon ...

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Case Study | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Suboptimal cardiovascular ultrasound imaging can produce transthoracic echocardiograms (TTEs) that are inconclusive ...

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News | Drug-Eluting Balloons

Orchestra BioMed Inc. announced the three-year clinical results from its Sirolimus Angioplasty Balloon for In-Stent Restenosis (SABRE) Trial at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2018, Sept. 21-25 in San Diego. Results demonstrated excellent efficacy and safety performance of the Virtue Sirolimus-Eluting Balloon (SEB) in a very challenging patient population with predominantly long, diffuse restenosis lesions within stents that had been implanted an average of nearly four years prior to the study enrollment.

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News | Congenital Heart

Five-month-old Jack Palmer is home with his family in Kansas City after undergoing an extremely rare heart-lung transplant at St. Louis Children’s and Washington University Heart Center in May. At five months of age, Jack was the youngest patient to undergo this surgery successfully in more than a decade.

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Ancora Heart Inc. announced positive clinical data from the company’s recently expanded U.S. early feasibility study evaluating the safety of the investigational AccuCinch Ventricular Repair System designed for the treatment of heart failure and functional mitral regurgitation (FMR). The data was presented at the 30th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Sept. 21-25 in San Diego.

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News | Drug-Eluting Balloons

New data announced at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, Sept. 21-25 in San Diego, reinforce the safety, durability and consistency of the In.Pact Admiral drug-coated balloon (DCB) in real-world patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Three-year real-world results from the full clinical cohort of the IN.PACT Global Study and one-year data from the Total IN.PACT pooled imaging and propensity analyses were presented at the TCT conference and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) annual meeting, Sept. 22-26 in Lisbon, Portugal, respectively.

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News | Robotic Systems

Corindus Vascular Robotics Inc. announced the first live transmission of a remote interventional procedure using the company’s CorPath platform was performed at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference in San Diego on Sept. 22, 2018. The remote interventional procedure was broadcast live from Mayo Clinic to the TCT Main Arena. Utilizing CorPath GRX with developmental remote technology, combined with a telecommunications system to enable communication with the bedside staff, the operator at Mayo Clinic had the ability to remotely manipulate interventional devices within a porcine model's arteries while located in a different building.

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