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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July 21, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved AstraZeneca’s blood-thinning drug ticagrelor ...

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July 21, 2011 – Concentric Medical Inc. announced the launch of the expanded family of Merci Retrievers in Japan for the ...

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April 26, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week it cleared Boston Scientific’s Ion ...

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July 20, 2011 — IDEV Technologies Inc. announced the completion of enrollment in the SUPERB trial, a U.S. Food and Drug ...

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July 20, 2011 — Ziehm Imaging reports a huge increase in demand for its training programs. In 2010 alone, the number of ...

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July 18, 2011 — NSVascular Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of NeuroSigma Inc., has signed an exclusive license with the ...

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July 18, 2011 — OrbusNeich announced that data from an ex vivo arteriovenous (AV) shunt model of human circulating blood ...

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Feature | By Mark Michael, M.D. and Jeffrey A. Breall, M.D., Ph.D.

Coronary revascularization does not always lead to coronary reperfusion. When readily available, percutaneous coronary ...

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Feature | Mladen I. Vidovich, M.D., FACC, FSCAI

Swedish SCAAR Registry data were presented in May during the EuroPCR meeting in Paris. The 30-day ST-elevated myocardial ...

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Feature | Adhir Shroff, M.D., MPH

Impact of Transradial and Transfemoral Coronary Interventions on Bleeding and Net Adverse Clinical Events in Acute ...

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Feature | Radial Access | Lidia Bochenek-Cobb BSN, CCRN and Katherine Durham BSN, CCRN, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Transradial catheterization is increasingly becoming the access site of choice for many hospitals throughout the United ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

The goal of treating peripheral artery disease (PAD) in the superficial femoral artery (SFA) is limb salvage and ...

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Feature | By Karene Dumoulin, Principal Analyst, Millennium Research Group

Navigating through the world of coronary stents is about to become more complex.  A plethora of new products are on the ...

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Feature | By Jane Luu, M.D., and John Kao, M.D., FACC

Each year, more than 300,000 people in the United States suffer sudden cardiac death, with some estimates placing this ...

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As part of its efforts to expand integration of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) image guidance with cath lab treatment ...

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