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February 15, 2010 – A small pocket-sized ultrasound system was released today to provide physicians with imaging capabilities at the point-of-care. GE Healthcare today announced the availability of its Vscan, which is roughly the size of a smart phone. It received FDA 510(k) clearance, CE mark in the European Union, and a medical device license from Health Canada.
February 15, 2010
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February 12, 2010 – With the U.S. population growing older and cardiology patient volume expected to increase in the coming years, cardiology departments are being forced to do more work with the same staffing levels.
February 12, 2010
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February 12, 2010 - After the U.S. FDA announced it is launching a program designed to reduce unnecessary medical radiation exposure with a focus on computed tomography, nuclear medicine and fluoroscopy, the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) gave its prescription for lowering radiation.
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February 11, 2010 – Former president Bill Clinton received two coronary stents today after being admitted to the hospital with chest pain.
February 11, 2010
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February 11, 2010 — An appeals court in Germany found the CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve system does not infringe Edwards Lifesciences’ German Andersen patent used in its SAPIEN aortic valve. The appellate court’s decision upholds a lower court’s ruling and enables uninterrupted access to the transcatheter heart valve in Germany.
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February 11, 2010 – Changing direction from a standalone device technology, Cambridge Heart Inc. has developed an OEM module to incorporate its microvolt T-wave alternans technology into other vendor’s ECG stress test equipment. The development phase of a microvolt T-wave alternans (MTWA) OEM module has been completed and an FDA 510(k) application for regulatory approval has been filed.
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Feature | Cardiac Imaging
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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