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Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) is a magazine that reaches more than 25,000 healthcare professionals in cardiology, interventional cardiology and cath labs across the United States. These influential buying team members rely on DAIC's award-winning editorial content and comparison charts as a unique research tool for specifying, recommending and approving technology/device purchases.

News | Congenital Heart

Edwards Recalls Miller and Fogarty Balloon Dilation Atrioseptostomy Catheters

April 29, 2019 — Edwards Lifesciences is recalling the Miller Balloon Atrioseptostomy Catheter and Fogarty Dilation ...

April 29, 2019

Patient Lillian Keavey speaks with Henry Ford cardiologists William O'Neill and Dee Dee Wang about her case. She was the 1,000th patients at Henry Ford to have their procedure guided by 3-D print.

News | Medical 3-D Printing

1,000th 3-D Print Patient Treated at Henry Ford Health System

April 26, 2019 — A 72-year-old woman from northern Michigan became Henry Ford Health System’s 1,000th patient treated ...

April 26, 2019

Videos | Structural Heart

VIDEO: The Importance of the Neo-LVOT in Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement

Dee Dee Wang, M.D., director of structural heart imaging, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich., explains how patient ...

April 25, 2019

Videos | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

VIDEO: Overview of the Watchman Left Atrial Appendage Occluder and its Implantation Procedure

This video offers an overview of the Watchman left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder system, including information of its ...

April 25, 2019

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.

Interventional Imagers: The Conductors of the Heart Team Orchestra

Recent months have signaled a new and exciting era in the dynamic world of structural heart disease (SHD). The COAPT ...

April 24, 2019

Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell, Editor

Boston Scientific Receives FDA Approval for Lotus Edge Aortic Valve System

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

April 23, 2019

News | Heart Valve Technology

New Consensus Document Explores Optimized Care for Valvular Heart Disease Patients

April 22, 2019 — Five cardiovascular professional societies released a new consensus document on optimizing care for ...

April 22, 2019

News | Cardiovascular Business

Medicare Trustees Report Hospital Insurance Trust Fund Will Deplete in Seven Years

April 22, 2019 — The Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund, which funds Medicare Part A, will only be able to pay ...

April 22, 2019

News | Congenital Heart

New Pediatric Blood Pressure Guidelines Improve Premature Heart Disease Identification

April 22, 2019 — New guidelines that classified more children as having elevated blood pressure are better at ...

April 22, 2019

News | Stem Cell Therapies

ProxiCor Extracellular Matrix Reduces Complications, Readmissions Following Pericardial Reconstruction

April 19, 2019 — Aziyo Biologics Inc. announced the publication of results from its landmark RECON study in the Journal ...

April 19, 2019

News | Heart Failure

Diabetes Drug May Reverse Heart Failure

April 19, 2019 – Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have demonstrated that the recently ...

April 19, 2019

News | Cath Lab

FDA Releases New Guidance on Medical Devices Containing Nitinol

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

April 18, 2019

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

Intravascular Lithotripsy: Will This New Investigational Technology Crack Calcium’s Code in the U.S.?

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

April 15, 2019

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

Immigration is Essential to Filling U.S. Physician Demand

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

April 15, 2019

BIOTRONIK’s PK Papyrus covered coronary stent. The stent ius used in emergency coronary artery dissections to repair the vessel wall.

Technology | Cath Lab

Biotronik Begins U.S. Launch of PK Papyrus Covered Coronary Stent

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

April 15, 2019