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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May 10, 2010 – Patients treated with the Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent maintained clinical improvement ...

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May 10, 2010 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just released a technical correction to the ...

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ICE is offered on GE Healthcares Vivid i and Vivid q portable ultrasound systems. Images can be integrated into GEs CardioLab electrophysiology system. Intracardiac echo (ICE) imaging technology advances.
Feature | Dave Fornell

Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) offers a clearer view of transcatheter devices and electrophysiology (EP) ...

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May 7, 2010 – Findings from the SPIRIT IV trial, one of the largest randomized clinical trials comparing two drug ...

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May 6, 2010 – Patients who can postpone noncardiac surgery for at least six weeks after receiving a coronary ...

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May 6, 2010 – After entered the Japanese drug-eluting stent market earlier this year, Abbott's Xience V and ...

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May 5, 2010 – A federal jury awarded more than $29.4 million in damages in a patent infringement lawsuit between ...

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May 5, 2010 – Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT) is one of the fastest growing electrophysiology ...

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May 5, 2010 – A new high-definition intravascular imaging system gained U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

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May 4, 2010 – The U.S. District Court in New Hampshire is being asked this week to review and reverse a jury ...

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May 3, 2010 – Excellent safety and clinical outcomes were shown in patients ages 70 and older who received a ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Several paclitaxel drug-eluting balloons (DEBs) are currently available on the European market, and several others are ...

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An illustration showing how the Amphirion_drug-eluting, drug-coated balloon technology works.
Feature | Drug-Eluting Balloons | Dave Fornell


Drug-eluting balloons (DEBs) may offer new options in treating peripheral vessels and restenosis. DEBs already ...

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Feature | By Stephanie Labelle, senior analyst, Millennium Research Group

In recent years, many medical device companies saw the underserved lower extremity as an opportunity to enter the ...

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April 28, 2010 – Deviating from its focus on intravascular imaging systems and fractional flow reserve (FFR) ...

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