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).

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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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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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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March 18, 2011 – Circulating through the bloodstream of every human being is a rare and powerful type of cell, one ...

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March 15, 2011 – A new chromium cobalt stent has received the CE mark market clearance in Europe. The Azule ...

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March 15, 2011 – Argon Medical Devices has entered into a definitive license agreement with Rex Medical, for ...

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March 14, 2011 – Expanding its transcatheter valve accessories with the addition of an aortic embolic protection ...

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March 14, 2011 – Doctors at Beaumont Hospital in Troy, Mich., have performed the state’s first minimally invasive ...

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March 10, 2011 – The first study to compare pain associated with deployment of different vascular closure devices ...

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March 10, 2011 – A newly introduced catheter provides a superior answer for percutaneous fluid aspirations and ...

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Physio-Control has acquired Swedish-based Jolife AB, the developer and manufacturer the automated Lucas Chest ...

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Circadian rhythms affect the incidence of coronary stent thrombosis, with more events occurring during the early ...

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