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February 11, 2010 — The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published results showing the Bard FLAIR Endovascular Stent Graft maintains the patency of dialysis access grafts more effectively than balloon angioplasty alone.
February 11, 2010
Technology
Toshiba America Medical Systems Vantage Titan and Vantage Atlas MR systems can help analyzing cardiac valve structure and heart function, as it shows both anatomy and function, such as myocardial movement and blood flow.
February 10, 2010
Technology
February 10, 2010 – At ACC 2010, Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. will feature software upgrades for its Aquilion ONE CT system, which includes cardiac enhancements to ensure the highest cardiac image quality at lower radiation doses.
February 10, 2010Sponsored Content
Feature | Information Technology
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
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Feature | Dave Fornell
A recently introduced atherectomy catheter offers a new class of device. It offers the advantages of two cutting tips on the same catheter, the ability to bore through all types of lesions, built-in embolic protection, and the ability to aspirate thrombus.
February 10, 2010
Feature | Dave Fornell
Despite the industry’s movement toward vendor neutral solutions, gaps remain in connectivity between PACS, cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), cardiac devices, monitors, other departments, and with hospital information systems. To fill the gaps where interoperability is an issue, some hospitals have found the best solution is writing their own programming.
February 10, 2010
Feature | Habib Samady, M.D.
Editor’s note: Dr. Samady is an associate professor of medicine, division of cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta. He wrote the following commentary on his experience with FFR and its impact on patient care.
February 10, 2010Sponsored Content
Feature | Cardiac Imaging
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
March 05, 2024
Feature | Dave Fornell
Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is starting to change cardiologists’ minds about how to treat patients since the release of two-year results from the FAME (FFR vs. Angiography in Multivessel Evaluation) trial at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2009. It showed FFR lowers costs by reducing the number of stents and produces better patient outcomes.
February 10, 2010
Feature | By Jeffrey A. Breall, M.D., Ph.D.
In today’s market, many vendors have very good cardiovascular picture archiving and communications systems (PACS). One needs to only hit the exhibit floor for a short time at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) or the American College of Cardiology (ACC) before it becomes apparent that there is a myriad of systems available right now that are excellent and fairly user friendly.
February 10, 2010Technology
PicomSR, ScImage's portable structured reporting suite for echocardiography, offers embedded wall motion scoring. The reporting suite's other tools include structured reporting for nuclear medicine and the cardiac cath lab.
February 09, 2010Sponsored Content
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When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
December 11, 2023Technology
PicomWeb is a light, zero-footprint, content delivery mechanism for diagnostic images and related documents is based on Adobe Flash technology. It allows interactive ECG waveforms viewing that are rendered on the fly. This allows clinicians to modify the speed and gain of the tracing for a more precise view of the ECG morphology, whether the user is investigating from a PC or a smart phone.
February 09, 2010
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February 9, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is starting a program designed to reduce unnecessary medical radiation exposure that will focus on three types of imaging procedures: computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine and fluoroscopy. The FDA considers those procedures the greatest contributors to total U.S.
February 09, 2010Technology
February 9, 2010 – The FDA approved CRESTOR (rosuvastatin calcium) to reduce the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction and arterial revascularization procedures in individuals without clinically evident coronary heart disease.
February 09, 2010Sponsored Content
Case Study | Hemodynamic Monitoring Systems
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
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February 9, 2010 – Researchers are developing technology that they hope will one day prevent thrombus formation on cardiovascular devices without the use of anticoagulation drugs.
February 09, 2010
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February 9, 2010 – Off-pump bypass surgery, or “beating heart surgery,” was developed in hopes of creating a safer way to fix cholesterol-clogged coronary arteries.
February 08, 2010News
February 9, 2010 – In response to increasing demand for its radio frequency identification (RFID) units in Europe, Terso Solutions Inc. has formed Terso GmbH in Mannheim, Germany.
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