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).

The implantation of a MitraClip is guided under live transesophageal echo (TEE). This image shows the operator moving the open clip into position and engaging the mitral valve leaflets. The clip appears as a arrowhead shape in the ultrasound with the leaflets coming off each side. Photo from a MitraClip procedure at the University of Colorado Hospital. Dr. Dominick Wiktor. The TEE is from a Philips Epiq system.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Allen Atchley, M.D., FACC, The Chattanooga Heart Institute

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is one of the most common types of heart valve diseases in the United States, affecting ...

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The startup company Genetesis introduced a new cardiac imaging modalityit calls magnetocardiography. The scanner creates images from the biomagnetic activity of the heart, using the polarization and depolarization of the heart during the cardiac cycle. This was at AHA.18, AHA 2018 - the American Heart Association annual meeting
Feature | AHA | Dave Fornell, Editor

Here are a few of the takeaways from the clinical studies presented and new technology shown on the exhibit floor at the ...

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Mark Anderson, M.D., FACS, vice chair of cardiac surgery services and cardiothoracic surgeon at Hackensack University ...

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News | Computed Tomography (CT)

January 8, 2019 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has released a new expert consensus document ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

January 7, 2019 — JC Medical announced the successful treatment of the first U.S. patient with the company’s ...

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Videos | Structural Heart

John Carroll, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, director of interventional cardiology, and Robert Quaife, M.D., director of advanced ...

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The 2018 Most Popular Cardiology Topics - FDA approval of Andexxa, the first antidote indicated for patients treated with rivaroxaban (Xarelto) and apixaban (Eliquis), and new pacemaker technologies.
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January 4, 2018 — Here is the top cardiology content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) website from ...

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Videos | Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO)

Interview with John Messenger, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, director of the cardiac cath labs and director of the cardiovascular ...

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News | Cath Lab

January 3, 2019 — Ohio University and the National Academy of Engineering announced the 2019 Fritz J. and Dolores H ...

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This is a 360 degree photo during a chronic total occlusion (CTO) procedure at the University of Colorado Hospital with ...

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Videos | Cath Lab

This is a walk through inside one of the cardiac hybrid cath labs at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora ...

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Videos | Cath Lab

This is the newest cardiac cath lab at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. Construction was ...

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