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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).

Two of the top news items from January included news atrial fibrillation guidelines that now recommend new anticoagulants (NOACs) over warfarin, and the FDA warning hospitals about the increased mortality found in one study involving pacitaxel-eluting stents and balloon devices for the peripheral arteries.
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February 1, 2019 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) m ...

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Technology | Hemostasis Management

February 1, 2019 — Merit Medical Systems Inc. announced that the PreludeSync Distal Compression Device is now available ...

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News | Catheters

January 31, 2019 — Cardiovascular Systems Inc. announced that the first patients in the United States were treated using ...

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A view of GE Healthcare's volume max, or Vmax, which allows for nearly triple the frame rate speeds on 3-D TEE in a single beat over previous generation systems.
Feature | Cardiovascular Ultrasound | Dave Fornell, Editor

The higher expense and lower frame rates of 3-D cardiac ultrasound systems have limited their adoption over the past ...

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News | Cath Lab

January 30, 2019 — Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a novel signaling pathway that promotes healing ...

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The Boston Scientific Eluvia self-expanding, drug-eluting peripheral stent. It outperformed the Cook Zilver stent in the IMPERIAL Trial presented at TCT 2018.
Feature | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) | Dave Fornell, Editor

In recent years, there has been a lot of focus by vendors on developing better stenting technologies to treat peripheral ...

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Technology | Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO)

January 30, 2019 — XableCath Inc., announced that its XableCath blunt and abrasion tip catheters were cleared by the U.S ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

January 29, 2019 — Thubrikar Aortic Valve Inc. announced the first human implant of the Optimum TAV using their transcat ...

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The Medtronic Resolute Integrity drug-eluting stent is among the top three stents on the U.S. market. Outcomes for these stents are very similar, so the stents have largely become a commodity product purchased on price rather than clinical data. Stent advances and new stent technologies.
Feature | Stents | Dave Fornell, Editor

There was a lot of hype and high hopes pinned on bioresorbable stent technologies as the way of the future two years ago ...

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An example of multimodality image fusion with live angiography to enhance soft-tissue visualization during complex procedures. This example is from Siemen's new TrueFusion software released in 2018. Advances in angiography imaging.
Feature | Angiography | Dave Fornell, Editor

There are a few recent trends in X-ray angiography imaging systems that hospitals should be aware of if they are looking ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

January 28, 2019 — Lenox Hill Hospital is the first hospital in New York City to successfully implant Abbott’s Tendyne t ...

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News | Drug-Eluting Balloons

January 28, 2019 — Philips announced the latest pooled analysis of patient-level data of over 2,300 patients treated ...

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Videos | Cardiac Imaging

DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most interesting new medical imaging technologies displayed on the ...

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The safety of paclitaxel-eluting stents and drug-coated balloons was called into question in a recent study that showed higher mortality rates after two years. The Cook Zilver PTX paclitaxel-eluting peripheral stent is among the devices included in that study.
Feature | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) | Dave Fornell, Editor

The anti-proliferative drug paclitaxel has been used as a coating on coronary stents to prevent restenosis since 2003 ...

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