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).

A radial artery angiogram demonstrating perforation of the radial artery at the bifurcation with the brachial artery, with evidence of extravasation of contra
Feature | Radial Access | Asim R. Zaidi, M.D., Mladen I. Vidovich, M.D., Adhir R. Shroff, M.D., and Bernadette Speiser, MSN, CCRN

 


The radial artery approach is exceptionally well-suited for diagnostic angiography and, with a lower incidence of ...

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May 15, 2012 — Boston Scientific Corp. and Philips Healthcare announced a collaboration enabling Philips to sell Boston ...

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Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center in Houston, Tex., has leveraged new imaging and interventional technologies ...

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The American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2012 Scientific Session, held March 24-27 in Chicago, was the first major ...

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May 14, 2012 — During the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) 2012 scientific sessions last week, Biosense Webster Inc. announced ...

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May 14, 2012 — Stereotaxis Inc. released to the European market the V-Sono intra-cardiac echocardiography (ICE) manipula ...

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May 14, 2012 -- Two types of stent systems are both effective in treating patients who have severe forms of peripheral ...

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May 14, 2012 — Boston Scientific announced results from the ASA Plavix (ASAP) study, which studied the Watchman Left ...

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May 14, 2012  -- Heart attack patients in North Carolina who were rushed directly to hospitals equipped to do ...

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May 11, 2012 — A new report issued this week by the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) and the Society for ...

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May 11, 2012 — Modern cardiac catheterization laboratories bear scant resemblance to the cath labs of a decade ago. An ...

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May 10, 2012 — New research confirms thrombus aspiration (TA) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in ...

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May 9, 2012 — Sound Interventions Inc. announced the successful completion of the company's first-in-human renal ...

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May 8, 2012 – The team at Texas Children's Fetal Center has successfully completed two in-utero fetal cardiac ...

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May 4, 2012 - CardioDex announces initial commercial use of a new femoral access site closure device. Recent data from ...

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