Amaranth's Fortitute bioresorbable stent scaffold. The company is developing smaller strut BRS.  Data presented at EuroPCR 2018
Feature | Stents Bioresorbable

June 19, 2018 – Amaranth Medical offered new details about its 85-micron Defiance bioresorbable scaffold (BRS) recently ...

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Clinical practice, along with guidelines and research, have shown that speckle tracking strain imaging can improve diagnostic assessment, standardize interpretation and may assist in the way patients are monitored over time to optimize care. Since 2016, there has been an investigational CPT code (0399T) available for myocardial strain echo studies, which many institutions are now reporting reimbursement. At the 2018 American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) annual meeting, June 22-26 in Nashville, Epsilon Imaging will demonstrate how imaging departments can integrate strain imaging into their echoc programs with EchoInsight.

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Technology | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Cardiovascular imaging artificial intelligence (AI) company Bay Labs announced its EchoMD AutoEF software received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the fully automated clip selection and calculation of left ventricular ejection fraction (EF). EF is the single most widely used metric of cardiac function and used as the basis for many clinical decisions. The EchoMD AutoEF algorithms eliminate the need to manually select views, choose the best clips and manipulate them for quantification, an often time-consuming and highly variable process.

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News | Congenital Heart

June 18, 2018 — Heart defects are the most common type of birth defect, and can be caused by mutations in the gene CHD4 ...

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Technology | Medical 3-D Printing

3D Systems announced availability of its new On Demand Anatomical Modeling Service. This new service provides a wide range of medical professionals with access to anatomical models 3-D-printed from their 3-D digital files, enabling enhanced three-dimensional visualization for surgical planning as well as patient education.

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A myocardial perfusion exam performed on the Siemens Biograph Vision PET-CT system.
Feature | Nuclear Imaging | Dave Fornell, Editor

Nuclear imaging technology for both single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography ...

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LivaNova PLC announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Memo 4D semi-rigid mitral annuloplasty ring. The company also confirmed the first implantation of the device.

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Technology | Drug-Eluting Balloons

Medtronic plc has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for 200mm and 250mm lengths of the In.Pact Admiral Drug-Coated Balloon (DCB) to treat long superficial femoral artery (SFA) lesions in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD).

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

A team of researchers says it has linked sensitivity to an allergen in red meat to the buildup of plaque in the arteries of the heart. While high saturated fat levels in red meat have long been known to contribute to heart disease for people in general, the new finding suggests that a subgroup of the population may be at heightened risk for a different reason – a food allergen. The study, which is supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, appears in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

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News | Guidewires

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the following two draft guidance documents: Coronary, Peripheral, and Neurovascular Guidewires - Performance Tests and Recommended Labeling; and Intravascular Catheters, Wires, and Delivery Systems with Lubricious Coatings - Labeling Considerations.

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This is a 360 degree image from the Canon Aquilion One 320-slice computed tomography (CT) system installed at ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Henry Ford Hospital is one of 17 U.S. trial sites using a catheter-based procedure approved in Europe to repair a leaky mitral heart valve.

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News | Mobile Devices

Medication management platform Medisafe released data showing that, on average, hypertensive patients increase their prescription refills by almost 10 percent after they start using the company's mobile app.

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News | Wearables

The thought of losing up to $14 a week along with personalized goal setting may have motivated ischemic heart disease patients to increase their exercise, according to a new clinical trial published in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

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News | Stent Grafts

Cardinal Health announced that its Incraft Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Stent Graft System has received a favorable recommendation on its premarket approval application from a key U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel. The FDA Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee voted 11 to 4 in favor of the benefits of the device.

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