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).

News | Stents

April 6, 2021 — Abbott today announced its Xience stent has received CE mark in Europe for shorter duration of dual anti ...

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Videos | Cath Lab

Corindus, a Siemens Healthineers company and a developer of vascular robotics, recently launched a new set of automated ...

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Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Behnood Bikdeli M.D., a cardiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, offers an ...

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Sponsored Content | Case Study | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

Washington Health System (WHS) provides healthcare services at more than 40 offsite locations across three counties in ...

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Videos | Cath Lab

This is a quick example of clinical use of the Shockwave Medical Intravascular Lithotripsy system that uses sonic wave ...

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News | Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

March 31, 2021 — Driven by pandemic realities and clinical demand for portable and intelligent point-of-care ultrasound ...

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The Medtronic Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV) System. It is first in the world non-surgical heart valve to treat pediatric and adult patients with a native or surgically-repaired right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) to stop severe pulmonary valve regurgitation caused by congenital heart disease.
Feature | Structural Heart | By Dave Fornell, Editor

March 26, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Medtronic Harmony Transcatheter ...

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Virtual tour views of a University of Colorado cath lab during a CTO procedure (top left), the new robotic EP lab at Banner Health (top right), a bi-plane EP/cath combo lab at Baylor Heart Hospital Dallas (bottom left, and an ECMO procedure at Tufts Medical Center cath lab. Photos by Dave Fornell
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There is a lot of interest in how other hospitals organize and equip their cardiac cath labs and electrophysiology (EP) ...

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News | Heart Failure

March 24, 2021 — Endotronix Inc., a digital health and medical technology company working on advancements in treating of ...

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Videos | Structural Heart

Interview with Scott E. Kasner, M.D., who served as the principle investigator for the Gore Cardioform REDUCE trial, and ...

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) can potentiate all 3 sides of Virchow’s Triad of coagulopathy, including endothelial dysfunction, blood flow stasis, and hypercoagulability. Angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE-2)–dependent viral entry and the virus-induced inflammatory response can lead to endothelial dysfunction. Clotting Prevention in COVID-19 Patients, Thrombosis Prevention in COVID-19 Patients, Preventing blood clots in COVID-19 patients
Feature | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies | By Dave Fornell, Editor

A comprehensive review or more than 80 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating how to best manage optimal ...

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News | Interventional Radiology

March 18, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Boston Scientific's TheraSphere Y-90 Glass ...

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Blog | Cath Lab

After covering cardiovascular technologies for 14 years, it is rare that I find a new technology that might actually be ...

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Example of an angioplasty balloon catheter being expanded inside an artery to push atherosclerotic plaque and thrombus out of the way to reopen the vessel lumen to increase or reopen bloodflow. Balloon catheters are used to revascularize patients with heart attacks and to deploy stents to prop open the expended vessel.
Feature | Balloon Catheter | By Dave Fornell, Editor

The first devices developed for interventional cardiology were percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) ...

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News | Drug-Eluting Balloons

March 12, 2021 — Philips Healthcare announced the final, five-year results of two major randomized controlled trials ...

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