News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

Intact Vascular Inc. announced that the one-year results from its Tack Optimized Balloon Angioplasty (TOBA) clinical study were published in the July 2016 edition of the Journal of Vascular Surgery.

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

August 24, 2016 — Mayo Clinic has launched a new type of blood test that will be used to predict adverse cardiovascular ...

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August 24, 2016 — Members of the successful Apollo space program are experiencing higher rates of cardiovascular ...

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News | Renal Denervation

August 23, 2016 — Technavio analysts forecast the global renal denervation market to grow at a compound annual growth ...

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News | Heart Failure

August 23, 2016 — A new study of more than 13,000 people has found that so-called morbid obesity appears to stand alone ...

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August 23, 2016 — During a heart attack, clots or narrowed arteries block blood flow, harming or killing cells within ...

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News | Ultrasound Imaging

August 22, 2016 — College Choice, a leading authority in college and university rankings and resources, has published ...

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August 22, 2016 — The Mount Sinai Hospital is the first site in the New York metropolitan area to pioneer a new approach ...

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News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

Avinger Inc. recently announced the closing of its previously announced public offering of 9,857,800 shares of Avinger’s common stock at a price to the public of $3.50 per share.

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News | Hypertension

Obstructive sleep apnea is a common cause of high blood pressure. In the Aug. 17, 2016, issue of the journal Science Signaling, researchers based primarily at the University of Chicago describe the signaling cascade that leads to this form of hypertension and suggest ways to disrupt those signals and prevent elevated blood pressures.

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News | Cath Lab

The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) Heart Hospital recently completed a Complex Percutaneous Intervention education course, utilizing an unprecedented four live, clinically complex cases.

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News | Stent Grafts

Endologix Inc. announced the first two patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) have been treated with the Ovation Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System. The patients were treated by Andrew Holden, M.D., and Andrew Hill, M.D., of Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

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News | Radiation Dose Management

The detonation of atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in horrific casualties and devastation. The long-term effects of radiation exposure also increased cancer rates in the survivors. But public perception of the rates of cancer and birth defects among survivors and their children is in fact greatly exaggerated when compared to the reality revealed by comprehensive follow-up studies. The reasons for this mismatch and its implications are discussed in a Perspectives review of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki survivor studies published in the August issue of the journal Genetics, a publication of the Genetics Society of America.

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

Researchers at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto, and at Mayo Clinic are leading the Tailored Antiplatelet Therapy to Lessen Outcomes after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (TAILOR-PCI) study. This study has received $7 million in additional funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Feature | Atherectomy Devices | Dave Fornell

Due to poor outcomes from percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) ballooning of vessels alone, or of stenting in ...

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