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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September 8, 2008 - Stereotaxis Inc. said today the first atrial fibrillation procedures using its re-introduced ...

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September 8, 2008 - Royal Philips Electronics reached an agreement to acquire India-based Alpha X-Ray Technologies, a ...

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September 5, 2008 - The results of the SYNTAX study, a head-to-head comparison between drug-eluting stents (DES) using ...

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September 5, 2008 - Pathway Medical Technologies Inc., today received FDA clearance to market Jetstream, a ...

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AngioScore Inc. has introduced longer and larger AngioSculpt PTA Scoring Balloon Catheters for the treatment of ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Tight inventory control in the cath and electrophysiology (EP) labs is critical to hospitals' bottom lines due to ...

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Feature | Venkat Rajan, medical research analyst, Frost & Sullivan

This comparison chart features three categories of stents: coronary, carotid and peripheral. We gratefully acknowledge ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

The use of embolic protection devices (EPD) during percutaneous cardiac procedures has helped reduce the number of ...

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Boston Scientific launched its Atlantis 018 Peripheral Imaging Catheter, which reportedly brings existing 40MHz coronary ...

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Feature | Maureen Leahy-Patano

Angiography systems have been a diagnostic mainstay in cardiac cath labs for more than 50 years, playing a pivotal ...

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Feature | Maureen Leahy-Patano

The landscape of cardiovascular care is changing. In the cath lab alone, the shift in volume and type of ...

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The FDA has approved the LipiScan Coronary Imaging System, an angiography laser scanner by InfraReDx Inc., which ...

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The FDA recently cleared Boston Scientific Corp.’s PROMUS Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System and Abbott Vascular’s ...

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September 2, 2008 - The safety debate about drug-eluting stents (DES) is still ongoing and in these times of uncertainty ...

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September 2, 2008 – The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) released new guidelines for how doctors should handle ...

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