September 24, 2010 – Drug-eluting stents are beneficial in treating symptomatic peripheral artery disease (PAD) in the femoropopliteal artery. Data from the ZILVER PTX trial demonstrate that paclitaxel-eluting stents had significantly better 12-month patency rates compared to traditional angioplasty with bare-metal stents for lesions in the femoropopliteal artery (above the knee).

September 24, 2010 - The first in-human study of a robotically assisted percutaneous coronary intervention system demonstrated that the technique is safe and feasible. The results of the study, which used the CorPath 200 by Corindus Vascular Robotics, were presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 meeting.

September 24, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted conditional approval to start a trial testing a new treatment to reduce the incidence of new onset postoperative atrial fibrillation.

September 23, 2010 - Results from the second stage of a trial studying a bioresorbable vascular scaffold were announced at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in Washington, D.C.

September 23, 2010 - Results from a study evaluating the safety and clinical efficacy of the Promus Element everolimus-eluting coronary stent will be released at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in Washington, D.C.

September 23, 2010 – The first consensus document for treating structural heart disease has been published by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI).

September 22, 2010 - A new intravascular imaging system will be highlighted at the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in Washington, D.C. The C7-XR optical coherence tomography (OCT) platform, made by St. Jude Medical, offers physicians a new tool for intravascular lesion assessment.

The 23rd annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) will take place from Jan. 16-20, 2011 in Miami Beach. At the meeting, more than 1,500 members of the endovascular community-including physicians, researchers, nurses and professionals from around the world-will discuss the field’s controversies and advances.