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TeraRecon will be showcasing iNtuition Cloud, the company’s flagship iNtuition solution in the form of a Web-based service at RSNA 2011.

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October 31, 2011 –Lantheus Medical announced it has been awarded a three-year supplier contract with Premier Purchasing Partners, the group purchasing unit of the Premier healthcare alliance, for its radiopharmaceutical imaging agents.

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October 31, 2011 – GE Healthcare's announced in Milan, Italy, that the Lombardia Ministry of Health (MoH) purchased 135 units of GE Healthcare's pocket-sized, ultrasound medical imaging device Vscan for use by general practitioners in the region. This effort by GE Healthcare and the Lombardia MoH is not only the first of its kind for Italy, but also unique to Europe.

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October 31, 2011 – NordicNeuroLab (NNL), a developer of products for functional neuroimaging, announced the launch of its magnetic resonance (MR)-compatible liquid crystal display (LCD) display. Branded the NNL LCD Monitor, the monitor is intended for use in functional MR imaging, patient comfort and relaxation, and as procedural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) display.

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October 31, 2011 – To ensure MR imaging is as efficient and safe as possible, Toshiba America Medical Systems has unveiled enhancements to its Vantage Titan MR (magnetic resonance) product line, including the first high-density 16-channel flexible coil system (works-in-progress). The new additions to the Vantage Titan MR systems are designed to make it easier for clinicians to complete high-quality exams and improve diagnostic efficiency.

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October 31, 2011 — On Oct. 18, 2011, the TICH-BIOTRONIC Pacemaker Wireless Monitoring Services Centre was co-founded in China’s Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) by TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital (TICH) of Tianjin and Biotronik (Beijing) SE & Co. KG of Germany.

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October 31, 2011 — American College of Cardiology (ACC) President David Holmes, M.D., FACC, commended a congressional panel that met recently to discuss the physician payment system. The briefing was orchestrated by Reps. Phil Roe and Allyson Schwartz.

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October 31, 2011 — A panel presentation at the American College of Surgeons' annual clinical congress detailed how the contemporary practice of vascular surgery has evolved during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. This has resulted in superior outcomes for complex, combat-related vascular injuries, including increased rates of amputation-free survival following extremity wounds.

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Feature | Dave Fornell

A better strategy to sell the costs of a transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) program to hospital administrators is not to base ROI on TAVI procedures, but on the increased surgical valve repair volume the program would create.

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The Edwards Sapien transcatheter aortic valve is pending FDA clearnance. The valve can be delivered both transfemorally (pictured here) or transapically in a hybrid OR.
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In a closely watched move – viewed as a big step toward a paradigm shift in how heart valves are repaired in the United States – a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel in July recommended approval of the Edwards Lifesciences Sapien transcatheter heart valve.

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October 26, 2011 –Lantheus Medical Imaging announced it has been awarded three-year supplier contracts with Premier Purchasing Partners, the group purchasing unit of the Premier healthcare alliance, in the category of cardiac ultrasound contrast media for its ultrasound contrast agent, Definity Vial for (perflutren lipid microsphere) Injectable Suspension, and its magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) blood pool imaging agent, Ablavar (gadofosveset trisodium).

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October 26, 2011 – Older men whose bodies produce higher levels of testosterone may be protected against heart attacks and strokes, new medical research suggests.

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October 26, 2011 – St. Jude Medical announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its Ilumien system, the first integrated diagnostic technology that combines optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fractional flow reserve (FFR) technologies on one platform. The combined system offers physicians advanced physiological and anatomical insight to improve the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease.

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October 26, 2011 — Medtronic Inc. announced the start of SYMPLICITY HTN-3, the company’s United States clinical trial of the Symplicity Renal Denervation System for treatment-resistant hypertension. The first patient was enrolled at the Prairie Heart Institute at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Ill.

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Feature | Dave Fornell

In a closely watched move viewed as a big step toward a paradigm shift in how heart valves are repaired in the United States, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted late yesterday to recommend approval of the Edwards Lifesciences Sapien transcatheter heart valve. The FDA Circulatory System Devices Panel recommended the valve specifically for the treatment of patients who are too sick to undergo the standard therapy of surgical valve replacement.

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