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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).

Figure 1: A computed tomography angiography (CTA) study performed for transcatheter aortic valve replacement planning.  Interventional imagers created and interpret these images as part of the heart team.
Feature | Structural Heart | Nadeen N. Faza, M.D., Dee Dee Wang, M.D., Joao Cavalcante, M.D., Andrew D. Choi, M.D., Jeffrey B. Geske, M.D., and Stephen H. Little, M.D.
Recent months have signaled a new and exciting era in the dynamic world of structural heart disease (SHD). The COAPT ...
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Technology | Drug-Eluting Balloons

April 24, 2019 —  Orchestra BioMed Inc. has secured Breakthrough Device designation by the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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Boston Scientific Receives FDA Approval for Lotus Edge Aortic Valve System
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell, Editor

April 23, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Boston Scientific Lotus Edge transcatheter ...

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News | Cath Lab

April 23, 2019 – Determining which elderly heart attack patients take longer to stand from a seated position and walk ...

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April 18, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a draft guidance titled, “Technical Considerations for ...

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

April 16, 2019 — HonorHealth Research Institute announced the first patients have been enrolled in the SynIVUS-DAPT ...

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Angiography shows a stenotic lesion in the mid right coronary artery, undilatable by standard high-pressure balloon angioplasty (inset, arrowheads). (B) Optical coherence tomography (OCT) cross-sectional (top) and longitudinal (bottom) images acquired before IVL and coregistered to the OCT lens (arrow in A) demonstrate severe near-circumferential calcification in the area of the stenosis. (C) Angiography demonstrates improvement in the area of stenosis after IVL lithoplasty.
Feature | Cath Lab | Dean Kereiakes, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, and Jonathan Hill, M.D., DISRUPT CAD III Co-Principal Investigators

Over the last 40 years, despite multiple advancements in percutaneous coronary interventions, calcified lesions remain a ...

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

April 15, 2019 — For the first time in the United States, doctors with the American Heart Association (AHA) have ...

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Foreign-trained doctors now make up one-third of cardiologists in the United States and help make up for the U.S. overall shortage of physicians. Pictured here is co-author of this article Mandeep R. Mehra, MBBS, MSc, FRCP, who is an example of the contribution international physicians have made in the U.S. He is medical director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center.
Feature | Cardiovascular Business | William W. Pinsky, M.D., FAAP, FACC, and Mandeep R. Mehra, MBBS, MSc , FRCP

As we strive to process today’s successive news cycles involving negative reports about immigration, it is easy for many ...

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Technology | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

April 15, 2019 – Intact Vascular Inc. received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) market clearance for the Tack ...

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April 15, 2019 — Biotronik began its U.S. commercial launch of the PK Papyrus covered coronary stent system for use in ...

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News | Guidewires

April 10, 2019 — According to a new research study, straight tip guidewires, with a current share of more than a third ...

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April 9, 2019 — A program designed to help heart attack patients with the transition from hospital to outpatient care ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology | Jeff Zagoudis, Associate Editor

April 8, 2019 — Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is reportedly recovering after undergoing a transcatheter aortic ...

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Technology | Cath Lab

April 8, 2019 — TherOx Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted premarket approval for ...

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