March 11, 2009 - The VAP Cholesterol Test from Atherotech Inc. is now available with apolipoprotein A (apoAI), reportedly increasing its clinical utility in the assessment of risk for heart disease, diabetes and other cardiovascular diseases, and making it the only single cholesterol test that routinely reports apoAI, apoB and the apoB/apoAI ratio.

March 10, 2009 - Today, the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) published a Guidelines for the Interpretation and Reporting of Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography report, which will be printed in the March/April issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

March 10, 2009 - GE Healthcare entered into collaboration with STERIS Corp. to supply surgical technologies in GE interventional suites. The desire to integrate and equip Interventional suites with leading-edge technologies from both companies inspired the agreement, which was announced today at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s annual meeting in San Diego.

March 10, 2009 - Interventional radiologists are using image-guided stem cell therapy to create new or more blood vessels to treat peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in those individuals with extensively narrowed or clogged arteries, reported a study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 34th Annual Scientific Meeting.

March 10, 2009 - Endovascular or endograft repair, a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment that uses stent grafts to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), has low re-intervention rates that are comparable to those reported for open surgical repair - and can be recommended as first-line treatment, according to a study released at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 34th An

March 9, 2009 – The Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio and Cardiology Consultants of Houston in Texas have chosen Digisonics’ DigiNet Pro System for their cardiovascular image management and reporting needs.