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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January 4, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released an update of what medical devices it ...

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January 3, 2011 – Two new classes — “Advanced Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging for Technologists” and “Advanced ...

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January 3, 2011 – ev3, a Covidien company, has initiated a voluntary recall of specific lots of the NanoCross .014 ...

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December 29, 2010 - Research on reducing risks, improving medical treatment and improving lifestyle behaviors to ...

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December 29, 2010 – An international trial for a self-apposing stent has begun, with 50 of the total 500 patients ...

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December 29, 2010 - America is winning a battle against heart disease and stroke mortality, but is still losing ...

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December 27, 2010 – A case report in Circulation describes the association of stent thrombosis with lipid core ...

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December 21, 2010 – A new introducer kit is now available in the United States. The VSI StraitSet Kit, from ...

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December 17, 2010 – Data published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions showed that a protein used with ...

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December 17, 2010 – Meta analysis data delivered at the Innovations in Interventional Cardiology 2010 meeting ...

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December 17, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested additional analyses of the trial ...

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December 16, 2010 – A system designed to improve acute coronary syndrome (ACS) revascularization following ...

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The JenaValve transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) device.
Feature | By Chris S. Malaisrie, M.D. and Attapoom Susupaus, M.D., Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute

Aortic stenosis (AS) is one of the most common valvular disorders in older adults, with a prevalence of approximately 8 ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

There have only been incremental improvements in intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) over the past decade. However ...

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Feature | Adrienne Ma, analyst, Millennium Research Group

During a time when the U.S. healthcare reform is on the minds of many within the medical community, physicians and ...

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