Cath Lab

The catheterization lab channel includes content related to interventional technologies for coronary and peripheral artery disease (PAD). Other cath lab transcatheter device technologies covered on this page included percutaneous treatment for stroke, venous interventions, heart valves, hypertensionheart failure and percutenous coronary interventions (PCI).

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June 17, 2014  — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Edwards Sapien XT transcatheter aortic ...
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Watchman, LAA occluder that may help increase cath lab procedure volume.
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Interventional thought leaders at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2014 meeting shared their predictions about ...

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FDA Recommendation Lutonix Drug Coated Balloon Catheter
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June 16, 2014 — C. R. Bard Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Circulatory System Devices ...

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June 16, 2014 — New appropriate use expert consensus documents developed by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography ...

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June 16, 2014 — Medtronic announced it is purchasing Covidien in a cash-and-stock deal for $42.9 billion. Once the ...
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June 13, 2014 — Cardinal Health announced the 2 millionth shipment of the Mynx Vascular Closure Device (VCD). The Mynx ...

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June 12, 2014 — Three-dimensional imaging known as 3-D quantitative coronary angiography (3D-QCA) accurately identifies ...

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June 12, 2014 — Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (CSI) announced that the first patient has been enrolled in its Coronary ...

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June 11, 2014 — Heart attack and stroke are among the most serious threats to health. But novel research at University ...

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June 10, 2014 — Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Medinol Ltd. earlier this year initiated two registration trials of ...

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June 10, 2014 — A real-time monitoring device that beeps in the presence of high doses of radiation can help reduce ...

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June 9, 2014 — After one year, patients treated with orbital atherectomy, a procedure to sand away calcium in the ...

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June 5, 2014 — Mercator MedSystems is in the midst of its prospective, 300-patient, 30-site DANCE (Dexamethasone to the ...

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June 5, 2014 — The president of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), Patrick O’Gara, M.D., recently explored what ...

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June 5, 2014 — New measures of the severity of coronary artery blockages do not provide enough accuracy to guide ...

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