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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March 24, 2011 - The first implant in the United Kingdom of the Omega Platinum Chromium Bare-Metal Coronary Stent ...

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March 23, 2011 - Millar Instruments Inc. is issuing a worldwide recall of 1,080 units of its Human Use High ...

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Videos | Radial Access

Radial access is very popular outside the United States because it offers improved safety, comfort and cost savings over ...

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Videos | Radial Access

St. Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta created a radial access recover room that replaces beds and the sterile institutional ...

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March 22, 2011 – During complex interventional procedures, it is challenging to accurately navigate and interpret ...

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March 21, 2011 - OrbusNeich today announced it filed a lawsuit in the Netherlands against a doctor and principal ...

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Feature | Carolyn Dickens, NP, University of Illinois at Chicago

With the increased use of transradial cardiac catheterization throughout hospitals across the country, several results ...

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Feature | Adhir Shroff, M.D., MPH

Transradial Approach (Left vs. Right) and Procedural Times During Coronary Procedures: TALENT study

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

Radial artery occlusion rate during transradial access procedures is strongly related to sheath and catheter size ...

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Feature | John Kao, M.D., FACC

Heart disease remains the number one killer of both men and women in the United States, with ST elevation ...

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BMW guidewire, Abbott guidewires, guide wire technology, guidewires 101, what is a guidewire
Feature | Guidewires | Dave Fornell


Tiny guide wires are designed to navigate vessels to reach a lesion or vessel segment. Once the tip of the ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Over the last 10 years, hospitals have phased out analog image intensifiers for flat-panel, digital detector angiography ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

In January the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a big modifcation to the CoreValve U.S. pivotal ...

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Feature | Dennis Sarabi, M.D., Ph.D., FACC

Computed tomography (CT) technology has developed tremendously in the past 30 years. Significant improvements in ...

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March 18, 2011 – A clinical trial testing a robotic system to remotely deliver and manipulating coronary guide ...

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