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, hypertension, heart failure and percutenous coronary interventions (PCI).

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August 22, 2012 — Placement of an endovascular stent has become a common procedure for successfully reopening blocked ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

August 22, 2012 — Comedian Rosie O'Donnell’s heart attack last week is helping increase public education about how women ...

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August 20, 2012 — Abbott today announced that the Xience Xpedition everolimus-eluting coronary stent system received CE ...

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August 15, 2012 — Sound Interventions Inc. has released three-month data from the company's first-in-human clinical ...

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August 15, 2012 — Previously unreleased three-year data from the Zilver PTX randomized controlled trial of paclitaxel ...

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TAVR, EVAR Vascular Closure Device May Eliminate Need for Surgical Cut-Down
Feature | Dave Fornell

Due to the increasing number of transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVR) and endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) ...

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August 14, 2012 — The next five years will see many hospitals in Europe overcoming the high cost and complexity of ...

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August 14, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) market clearance to Stryker ...

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August 14, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hosting a public workshop that examines use of ...

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August 13, 2012 — Providers are increasingly focused on using interventional labs in a hybrid operating room (OR) enviro ...

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August 9, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing healthcare providers and patients that the ...

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Aug. 8, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Abbott’s Omnilink Elite Vascular Balloon ...

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Aug. 8, 2012 — Vascular Solutions Inc. launched the SuperCross FT, a new flexible-tip version of its line of SuperCross ...

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August 3, 2012 — GE Healthcare announced it has already received six orders for its Discovery IGS 730 system since ...

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Feature | Suzanne Winter, general manager, GE Healthcare interventional systems, Americas

Interventional procedures are growing rapidly and becoming more specialized in diverse areas of care.  In the next ...

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