An analysis of more than 1,000 minimally invasive aortic valve replacements and more than 400 additional associated procedures over a five-and-a-half year period showed low stroke rates and high survival rates in all age groups within 30 days of surgery. All procedures were performed by Joseph Lamelas, M.D., professor and associate chief of cardiac surgery in the division of cardiothoracic surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. His report appears in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

MR Solutions took their cryogen-free preclinical multimodality magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) solutions on tour in September 2017. The company had exhibits at the 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Chapter of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Sept. 11-13), and the British Nuclear Medicine Society’s autumn meeting (Sept. 15), both held in Liverpool. The company also exhibited at the World Molecular Imaging Congress 2017, Sept. 13-16 in Philadelphia.

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