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 | Structural Heart Occluders

March 27. 2019 — A newly released expert consensus statement provides recommendations for the safe and effective ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 27, 2019 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to update its national coverage policy ...

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Illustration showing the venous implantation route and where the inlet and outflow ports are when the Abiomed Impella RP is placed in the right side of the heart. The  Impella RP catheter is used for right heart hemodynamic support.
Feature | Hemodynamic Support Devices | Perwaiz Meraj, M.D. FACC and Uma Chandrasekaran, Ph.D.

Right heart failure (RHF) is a syndrome characterized by the inability of the right ventricle (RV) to support optimal ...

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Technology | Cardiovascular Education

March 26, 2019 — Level Ex, creators of medical video games for physicians, expanded into cardiology with the launch of ...

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

March 25, 2019 — Patients who stopped taking aspirin one month after receiving a stent in the heart’s arteries but ...

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News | Interventional Radiology

March 25, 2019 — NZ Technologies Inc. announced the first published clinical review on its TIPSO technology’s ability to ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 22, 2019 — Among patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at low surgical risk, transcatheter aortic valve ...

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The most recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance was Siemens Healthineers high-sensitivity troponin I assays (TnIH) for the Atellica IM and ADVIA Centaur XP/XPT in vitro diagnostic analyzers. The test helps in the early diagnosis of myocardial infarctions without the need for serial tropic testing. The time to first results is 10 minutes.
Feature | Cardiac Diagnostics | Linda C. Rogers, Ph.D.

Troponins are a family of proteins found in skeletal and heart (cardiac) muscle fibers that produce muscular contraction ...

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At #ACC.19, Siemens unveiled a version of its go.Top platform optimized for cardiovascular imaging. The newly packaged scanner can generate the data needed to do CT-based FFR (fractional flow reserve).
Feature | Cardiac Imaging | By Greg Freiherr

Reflecting a trend toward the increased use of computed tomography (CT) in cardiology, Siemens Healthineers launched a ...

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

March 21, 2019 — Clinicians should use echocardiography when determining whether patients with heart failure and a ...

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News | FFR Technologies

March 20, 2019 — At the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) annual meeting, March 16-18 in New Orleans, Philips ...

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News | Cath Lab

March 20, 2019 — Cook Medical is recalling one lot of its Transseptal Needle due to a manufacturing error that resulted ...

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Feature | ACC

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) released a list of the latest practice-changing presentations at the ACC.19 ...

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News | FFR Technologies

March 19, 2019 — Late-breaking results confirm the HeartFlow FFRct (fractional flow reserve computed tomography) ...

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SyncVision iFR Co-registration from Philips Healthcare maps iFR pressure readings onto angiogram.
Feature | Cardiac Imaging | By Greg Freiherr

As many as one in four patients who undergo cath lab interventions can benefit from a technology that identifies the ...

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