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).

An Edward Lifesciences Sapien TAVR valve during an implant procedure on angiography. There are still questions on how to best anticoagulate TAVR patients and the ATLANTIS study found Eloquis is not a good solution.
News | Structural Heart
TAVR Anticoagulation With Apixaban Not Superior to Standard Care

May 15, 2021 — The anticoagulant apixaban (Eliquis) was not superior to standard of care following transcatheter aortic ...

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There is a trend in interventional cardiology that is now being called “renalism,” where patients with poor renal function are being excluded from interventional procedures because they are automatically considered too high risk. However, some hospitals are also creating cardio-renal care teams so these patients can be cared for by a team of experts rather than interventional cardiologists going it alone. #SCAI21 #SCAI2021 Creating a card0-renal program.
Feature | Cath Lab | By Dave Fornell, Editor
Creating a Cardio-renal Program to Expand Patient Volume

There is a trend in interventional cardiology that is now being called “renalism,” where patients with poor renal ...

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Explaining the Emory TMVR angle. Discordance between mitral annular centerline (yellow lines) and valve orientation imposed by guidewire position within the LV apex (red dashed lines). (B) Valve intrinsic angle (α) is determined by external skirt height. (C) When annular-apical “Emory” angle (red curves) exceeds α (blue curve), annular skirt apposition is not possible, causing PVL (red arrows). (D) The valve is oriented perpendicular to the annual plane using an exteriorized apical guidewire.
Feature | Structural Heart | By Dave Fornell, Editor
The Emory Angle Can Help Eliminate Paravalvular Leak in Transcatheter Mitral Interventions

The mitral valve anatomy is extremely complex, which has caused many challenges for transcatheter mitral valve ...

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Videos | Structural Heart
VIDEO: Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Has Good Outcomes at 1 Year

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratories, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and principle investigator ...

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Abbott recently announced its new interventional imaging platform powered by Ultreon 1.0 Software, has gained European CE marked. This first-of-its-kind imaging software merges optical coherence tomography (OCT) intravascular imaging with the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for enhanced visualization. The new Ultreon Software can automatically detect the severity of calcium-based blockages and measure vessel diameter to enhance the precision of physicians’ decision-making during coronary stenting proc
News | Cath Lab
Abbott’s New Artificial Intelligence OCT Coronary Imaging Platform Launches in Europe

May 12, 2021 — Abbott recently announced its new interventional imaging platform powered by Ultreon 1.0 Software, has ...

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Preliminary results of a clinical trial, presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, showed that a new, low-profile thoracic aortic endograft is safe and effective in the treatment of descending thoracic aortic aneurysm or penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer (PAU) diseases.
News | Endovascular Aortic Repair
Low Profile Thoracic Aortic Endograft Device Reduces Complications and Expands Patient Pool

May 12, 2021 — Preliminary results of a clinical trial, presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, showed that a ...

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The digital technology is reducing reliance on unnecessary invasive diagnostic procedures and is cutting hospital waiting times
News | Artificial Intelligence
NICE Renews Support for Use of AI-powered HeartFlow Analysis

May 12, 2021 — HeartFlow, Inc., a leader in revolutionizing precision heartcare, today announced that the National ...

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The BioCardia cardiac stem cell CardiAMP trial is a Phase III study looking at the efficacy of using stem cells to improve heart function in heart failure patients. It is the first trial for this technology to reach Phase III trial.
Feature | Stem Cell Therapies | By Simon H. Stertzer, M.D.
Is Cardiac Cell Therapy Worth Another Look?

Heart failure remains an unheralded global pandemic, costing society billions of dollars each year.[1,2] Projections ...

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Videos | Structural Heart
VIDEO: VARC-3 Helps Standardize Structural Heart Taxonomy and Research

Philippe Géneréux, M.D., director of the structural heart program at Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center ...

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Videos | Radial Access
VIDEO: Radial Hemostasis Reduced by 50 Percent With StatSeal in Combination With TR Band

Arnold Seto, M.D., MPA, FSCAI, chief of cardiology, Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center and director ...

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Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
VIDEO: The Impact of COVID-19 on Heart Attack Patients

Payam Dehghani, M.D.,  FRCPC, FACC, FSCAI, co-director of Prairie Vascular Research and associate professor at the ...

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SCAI 2021 late-breaking presentations included the data on the Medtronic Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve, cutting radial access hemostasis time by 50 percent, improving cardiogenic shock survival to 71 percent, and data showing very high mortality in COVID patients who suffer a STEMI heart attack. #SCAI21 #SCAI2021
Feature | Cath Lab | By Dave Fornell, Editor
SCAI 2021 Late-breaking Clinical Study Results

April 29, 2021 — Here is the list of late-breaking study presentations and links to articles about each of them from the ...

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The Bluegrass Vascular Surfacer System is designed to reliably, efficiently and repeatedly gain central venous access by inserting the Surfacer System through the right femoral vein and navigating it up through the patient’s venous system with an exit point in the right internal jugular vein, the optimal location for placing a central venous catheter. 
News | EP Lab
Case Report on CRT Lead Placement in Obstructed Veins Using Surfacer System

May 6, 2021 - Bluegrass Vascular Technologies announced the publication of a report documenting the clinical utility of ...

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Videos | Cath Lab
VIDEO: Avoiding Higher Risk Cath Lab Patients May Not Improve Outcomes Scores

Ashwin Nathan M.D., a cardiology fellow in the division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Hospital of the University of ...

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The Corindus CorPath robotic cath lab navigation system allows operators to sit and control the procedure from behind a lead-lined booth, so they do not have to wear heavy aprons during the procedures.  Christoper Baker, M.D., Hoag Memorial Hospital using the system. #SCAI21 #SCAI2021
Feature | Robotic Systems
Second Generation Robotic PCI System Performs Well Across Spectrum of Lesion Complexity

May 5, 2021 — A late-breaking study of the Siemens Healthineers Corindus Corpath GRX second-generation cath lab robotic ...

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