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, hypertensionheart failure and percutenous coronary interventions (PCI).

Philips Healthcare's new Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) technology creates real-time 3-D imaging of anatomy and devices inside the body using light, rather than X-rays. FORS uses light traveling through hair-thin fiber optics inside special FORS enabled catheter and guidewires.
Feature | Angiography | Dave Fornell, Editor

Philips is working on a prototype cath lab angiographic imaging system that might be able to replace the current X-ray ...

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ACC issues document outlining COVID-19 Implications For Patients With Underlying Cardiovascular Conditions. The COVID-19 mortality rate for patients cardiovascular disease is 10.5 percent based of data from Chinese hospitals since the outbreak. COVID-19 fatality rates for patients with comorbidities are higher than the average population, but cardiac patients had the highest death rate. #COVID19 #coronavirus #2019nCoV #SARS‐CoV‐2
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

March 9, 2020 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) is offering updates on the clinical impact of novel coronavirus ...

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News | Interventional Radiology | Melinda Taschetta-Millane

March 9, 2020 — As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) slowly spreads across the globe, more industry conferences are ...

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ACC Cancels 2020 Conference Amid Coronavirus Concerns. #COVID19 #coronavirus #2019nCoV
Feature | ACC | Dave Fornell, Editor

March 9, 2020 — Less than week after the American College of Cardiology (ACC) said it would push ahead with holding its ...

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the FDA clearance of the Micra AV, the world’s smallest pacemaker with atrioventricular (AV) synchrony, topped the news analytics in February 2020 on DAIC magazine. COVID-19 virus image courtesy of CDC.
Feature | Dave Fornell, Editor

March 2, 2020 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) maga ...

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Videos | Structural Heart

Charles D. Resor, M.D., MSc, assistant director, cardiac catheterization lab, Tufts Medical Center and assistant ...

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News | Hypertension

February 27, 2020 — Aria CV Inc. completed a $31 million Series B round of financing to fund its first clinical study in ...

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A 3-D reconstruction of a cardiac CT scan showing an implanted Medtronic CoreValve TAVR device. Imagine courtesy of TeraRecon. #TAVR #TAVI
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell, Editor

In August 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the indication for the use of transcatheter aortic ...

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News | Balloon Catheter

February 24, 2020 — Abbott has voluntarily recalled specific lots of two types of its coronary angioplasty catheters — ...

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News | Stents

February 24, 2020 — Biotronik announced three-year data from the BIOFLOW-V Trial, which was presented yesterday at the ...

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Some of the new devices technologies to treat heart failure that are either in clinical trials or were recently cleared by the U.S. FDA. #heartfailure
Feature | Heart Failure | Dave Fornell, Editor

There are several new tools being added to the clinical armamentarium in the fight against heart failure (HF). These ...

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News | Cardiovascular Business

February 19, 2020 — Connectiv, a division of The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), has announced the ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Andrew Weintraub, M.D., FACC, associate director, of the Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Center, medical director ...

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