The FDA cleared the MaxQ AI Accipio Ix intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) detection software in November 2018. Here it is displayed at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2018 meeting.
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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: Maximizing Structural Heart Workflows
On July 16, 2024, Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology presented a webinar on "Maximizing Structural Heart Workflows: Harnessing the Power of CVIS and AI."
During the webinar, Omer Schalit–Cohen, chief product officer at Optum’s Healthcare Enterprising Imaging business unit, addressed optimizing workflow and efficiencies in the cardiovascular imaging department. In the presentation, Cohen examines how you can harness the power of the CVIS and AI technologies to enhance structural heart workflow in the EP lab and ultrasound procedures.
Schalit–Cohen is the chief product officer at Optum’s Healthcare Enterprising Imaging business unit. With more than 20 years of experience in innovation, he is an expert in the Imaging’s department complex workflows and has been instrumental in driving market leading solutions that have significantly enhanced patient care and department’s efficiency. as well as customer satisfaction.
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The webinar is sponsored by Optum, a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 215,000 people worldwide, Optum delivers intelligent, integrated solutions that help to modernize the health system and improve overall population health. Optum is part of UnitedHealth Group.
For more information, visit optum.com.
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This is a quick video tour of the Machine Learning Showcase at the Radiological Society Of North America (RSNA) 2018 meeting today. More than 150 vendors showed software for radiology incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) or deep learning.
Read more in the article “How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Medical Imaging.”
Anton S. Becker, M.D., radiology resident at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, discusses the long-term risks of cyberattacks on medical imaging data at the 2018 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting.
This is an example of the FDA-cleared OpenSight augmented reality (AR) system for surgical planning from NovaRad at the Radiological Society Of North America (RSNA) 2018 meeting. It uses a HoloLens headset to register an overlay of the patient’s MR or CT scan in the patient. The operator can use hand movements to slice through and manipulate the images.
The vendor gained an FDA indication for AR to be used in surgical planning in 2018. NovaRad is working with the FDA for a second indication for use of the AR in the operating room during procedures.
This video is jerky, slightly misaligned and the hand movements did not always respond because itwas shot with an iPhone inside the visor. The image quality and hand movements are much better when actually wearing it on your head and aligned for the specific user.
This is an example of how artificial intelligence (AI) can help improve patient care by pulling together patient data from numerous sources n the elect if medical records that are specific to a patient’s diagnosis and treatment for a specific disease state. This is Siemens’ AI-Pathway Companion introduced at the Radiological Society Of North America (RSNA) 2018 meeting this week. In this examples. A prostate cancer patient has all their data on a single time line that can be accessed by single clicks on the points to open reports, images, procedures or labs.
At the end of the time line it integrates AI driven clinical decision support that recommends the next course of action based on clinical guidelines. The guidelines cited can also be opened for review by the clinician.
Scott Schwartz, M.D., interventional radiologist and program director for IR residencies and the vascular and interventional radiology fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital, explains how the department uses Yttrium-90 (Y90) embolization therapy to treat liver cancer.
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(Editor's note - this video was originally published in November 2018 and was revised September 2019)
DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most innovative new cardiovascular technologies on display on the expo floor at the American Heart Association (AHA) 2018 meeting.
Find other new cardiovascular innovations in these videos from other conferences over the past year:
VIDEO: Editor’s Choice of the Most Innovative New Technology at TCT 2018
VIDEO: Editor’s Choice of the Most Innovative Echo Technology at ASE 2018
VIDEO: Trends and Advances in Cardiac CT Technology
VIDEO: Editor's Choice of Most Innovative New Cardiac Technology at ACC 2018
VIDEO: Editor's Choice of the Most Innovative New Imaging Technology at RSNA 2017
Navin Kapur, M.D., discusses the results of the FDA STEMI Door-to-Unloading (DTU) safety and feasibility randomized controlled trial, presented as a late-breaking study at the 2018 American Heart Association meeting. Learn more at ProtectedPCI.com/DAIC.
Related Impella Video Content:
VIDEO: Complex PCI Involving Prior CABG and Comorbidities — Interview with Perwaiz Meraj, M.D.
VIDEO: Analysis of Outcomes for 15,259 U.S. Patients with AMICS Supported with the Impella Device — Interview with William O'Neill, M.D.
VIDEO: Cardiogenic Shock Case with Impella CP Support — Case study with Michael Amponsah, M.D.,
James Januzzi, M.D., Hutter Family Professor at Harvard Medical School and a cardiologist at Mass General Hospital,, Boston, spoke at the 2018 American Heart Association (AHA) meeting about blood biomarkers that can aid in assessing reverse remodeling in heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).
Januzzi mentions the use of high sensitivity troponin in this video. Watch a VIDEO interview with Januzzi on his research with high sensitivity troponin.
Wilber Su, M.D., chief of cardiac electrophysiology, Banner University Medical Center, Phoenix, and clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Arizona, explains the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) best practices document on cryoballoon ablation. He led the development of that document. He spoke at the 2018 American Heart Association (AHA) meeting.
Read the related article "New Technologies to Improve Atrial Fibrillation Ablation."
James Januzzi, M.D., Hutter Family Professor at Harvard Medical School and a cardiologist at Mass General Hospital, Boston, spoke at the 2018 American Heart Association (AHA) meeting about his use of artificial intelligence to data-mine patient records. He spoke at AHA on the use of an AI-driven model to predict acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing coronary angiography, and on the results from a catheter sampled blood archive in a cardiovascular disease study.
Read the related article "How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Medical Imaging."
Matthew Budoff, M.D., professor of medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, spoke at the 2018 American Heart Association (AHA) meeting on the new AHA guidelines for cholesterol, including the use of computed tomography (CT) calcium scoring scans to assess patient risk. Budoff has been involved in several of the coronary artery calcium (CAC) trials that supported the new recommendation.
Related CT Calcium Scorining Content:
VIDEO: New Cholesterol Guidelines Support CT Calcium Scoring for Risk Assessment — Interview with Matthew Budoff, M.D.
CT Calcium Scoring Becoming a Key Risk Factor Assessment
ACC and AHA Release Updated Cholesterol Guidelines for 2018
VIDEO: CT Calcium Scoring to Screen For Who Should Take Statins — Interview with Matthew Budoff, M.D.
VIDEO: The History of CT Calcium Scoring — Interview with Arthur Agatston, M.D.
Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., executive director of the interventional cardiovascular program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, explains the results of the late-breaking REDUCE-IT Trial at the 2018 American Heart Association (AHA) meeting. This is a landmark study that showed icosapent ethyl (Vascepa) can significantly reduce major adverse cardiac and stroke events in patients with continued high triglyceride levels while on statin therapy.
Kim Allan Williams, Sr., M.D., chief of the Division of Cardiology and the James B. Herrick Professor at Rush University Medical Center, discusses the efforts being made by the Association of Black Cardiologists to reduce systemic hypertension in the African-American community. Williams is speaking on this topic at the American Heart Association 2018 meeting.
In 2009, the GuideLiner Catheter revolutionized the concept of guide extension, creating new possibilities in interventional cardiology. Now in its third generation, the GuideLiner V3 Catheter continues to build on a history of innovation and performance — one that has been demonstrated with more than half a million catheters in cath labs around the world.
Teleflex also offers a family of Turnpike Catheters. These contain a robust multi-layer shaft that provides impressive flexibility, torque and tracking over a 0.014” guidewire in complex coronary and peripheral interventions. The unique five-layer composite shaft provides an ideal combination of flexibility and torque response to help navigate through complex anatomy while the outer polymer layer paired with a 60 cm distal hydrophilic coating facilitates smooth catheter delivery. This portfolio consists of the Turnpike Catheter (standard version), the Turnpike Spiral Catheter, the Turnpike Gold Catheter, and the Turnpike LP Catheter. Each catheter configuration contains a specific design element to address various clinical challenges in complex procedures
This year, Teleflex acquired two well-known PTCA balloon catheters. The Chocolate XD PTCA Balloon Catheter is a specialty angioplasty balloon, used in the pre-dilatation and treatment of coronary lesions. The balloon’s proprietary nitinol constraining structure creates “pillows” and “grooves” that are designed to provide controlled dilatation while minimizing vessel wall trauma.
The Glider PTCA Balloon Catheter is a semi-compliant balloon with a skived tip and low entry profile. The tip design, coupled with hydrophilic coating and an innovative, torqueable shaft, allows for precise tip orientation for use in crossing complex lesions and stent struts.
For more information: www.teleflex.com
Example of GE Healthcare’s FetalHQ software for the ultrasound imaging of fetal hearts. The new tool runs on GE Healthcare’s Voluson ultrasound systems and is the first tool to simultaneously examine the size, shape and function of the fetal heart echocardiography for congenital heart evaluations.
Michael Flaherty, M.D., discusses a study published in Circulation Research which finds that use of hemodynamic support with the Impella 2.5 heart pump during high-risk PCI can reduce the risk of AKI even when those patients had pre-existing kidney disease and a low ejection fraction. For more information: http://bit.ly/2Pfaqxh
Related Impella Video Content:
VIDEO: Analysis of Outcomes for 15,259 U.S. Patients with AMICS Supported with the Impella Device — Interview with William O'Neill, M.D.
VIDEO: The Door-to-Unloading (DTU) STEMI Safety and Feasibility Trial — Interview with Navin Kapur, M.D.
VIDEO: Cardiogenic Shock Case with Impella CP Support — Case study with Michael Amponsah, M.D.
VIDEO: Complex PCI Involving Prior CABG and Comorbidities — Interview with Perwaiz Meraj, M.D.
Professor Ian Meredith, MBBS, Ph.D., global chief medical officer and executive vice president, Boston Scientific, explains key trial data presented at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference. He also explained the company's recent purchase of numerous start-up companies to expand in areas of structural heart, venous interventions, electrophysiology and oncology.
Hear Meredith's insights in the VIDEO: Future Research and Development Efforts in Cardiovascular Medicine
A discussion with Professor Ian Meredith, MBBS, Ph.D., global chief medical officer and executive vice president, Boston Scientific, on future directions for cardiology device technology development. He spoke to DAIC at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference.
Hear Meredith's insights in the VIDEO: Boston Scientific's Recent Cardiology Advances and Technology Acquisitions
DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most innovative new cardiovascular technology he found on the expo floor at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference.
Here are links to other Editor's Choice videos at recent conferences:
VIDEO: Editor's Choice of Most Innovative New Cardiac Technology at ACC 2018
VIDEO: Editor’s Choice of the Most Innovative Echo Technology at ASE 2018
VIDEO: Editor's Choice of the Most Innovative New Imaging Technology at RSNA 2017
#TCT2018
Cindy Grines, M.D., chair and professor, department of cardiology, Zucker School of Medicine, Hostra/Northwell, spoke on this topic in sessions at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference.
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Cindy Grines Becomes SCAI President
VIDEO: How to Build a Successful Women’s Heart Center — Interview with Malissa Wood, M.D.
VIDEO: Creating a Cardio-Obstetrics Team — Doreen DeFaria Yeh, M.D.
Diagnostic Differences in Women’s Heart Health
Find more articles on women's heart issues in the Women's Cardiovascular Health channel
Ashish Pershad, M.D., medical director, structural heart program, Banner University Medical Heart Institute, Phoenix, explains the difference he found between the FDA cleared Watchman left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder and the Abbott Amplatzer Amulet device now in U.S. trials. He spoke on these differences at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference.
Watch the VIDEO: New Data on LAA Occlusion From the PREVAIL and PROTECT Trials — Interview with Vivek Reddy, M.D.
Read the article "Occluding the Left Atrial Appendage (LAA)."
#TCT2018
Nevin Kapur, M.D., FAHA, FACC, FSCAI, executive director, Cardiovascular Center for Research and Innovation, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, explains the importance of ventricular unloading in the management of acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock. He spoke on this topic at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference.
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Philippe Genereux, M.D., co-director of the structural heart program at the Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute at Morristown Medical Center, part of Atlantic Health System, explains some of the technologies and techniques to close large vascular access sites due to TAVR, TEVAR and hemodynamic support devices. He was involved in a session on this topic at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference.
Read more about vascular closure devices.
#TCT2018
Rami Doukky, M.D., professor of medicine, preventative medicine and radiology, and chief of the Division of Cardiology at Cook County Health and Hospitals System, discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact all medical imaging modalities at the 2018 American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) annual meeting in San Francisco.
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Akshay Khandelwal, M.D., director of medical operations at the Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute, Detroit, and associate professor of cardiology at Wayne State University, explains how his center has reduced X-ray radiation dose in the cardiac catheterization labs.
Watch the related VIDEO: Reducing Cath Lab Radiation Dose at Henry Ford Hospital — Discussion with Nicolas Bevins, Ph.D., vice chair, physics and research, and Jessica Harrington, RCIS, Henry Ford Hospital.
Additional articles and videos on Henry Ford Hospital
For more on how to reduce dose in the cath lan, read these related articles:
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(Editor's note - this video was originally published in November 2018 and was revised September 2019)
William Abraham, M.D., FACC, professor of medicine and director of the division of cardiovascular medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, explains the results of the late-breaking COAPT Trial at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference.
Watch a VIDEO interview with Abraham on new technologies to reduce heart failure readmissions.
Watch a VIDEO with Abraham showing how a new vest may reduce readmissions.
Treating Mitral Regurgitation in High Risk PatientsUsing the MitraClip — article by Allen Atchley, M.D.
#TCT2018
Ron Waksman, M.D., associate director of the division of cardiology and director of cardiovascular research and advanced education, Medstar Heart Institute, explains details of the late-breaking LRP (Lipid Rich Plaque) Trial at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference. The trial used near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) combined with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) to identify vulnerable plaques and track them over time to determine the accuracy of the risk assessment. He said this may be a paradigm shift for interventional cardiology, being able to identify high-risk lesions before they cause a heart attack.
Read the article on the LRP Study reults.
Learn more about the LRP study in another VIDEO with Waksman at ACC 2018.
Find more news and video from TCT.
#TCT2018
William O’Neill, M.D., outlines his recent clinical publication of AMICS patients from the Impella Quality (IQ) database. Learn more at ProtectedPCI.com.
This is an animation showing how the dedicated bifurcation stent developed by Advanced Bifurcation Systems (ABS) is deployed in coronary vessels. The vendor made its debute on the expo floor of the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) annual meeting. The ABS system is in the process of obtaining regulatory approval and no products are currently for sale.
Behnam Tehrani, M.D., FSCAI, director of the cardiac cath lab, INOVA Heart and Vascular Institute, Fairfax, Va., discusses a complex, high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) case where hemodynamic support from an Abiomed Impella device is used to support the patient.
Visit ProtectedPCI.com for more video cases. The website also has additional information on protocols for protected PCI and cardiogenic shock hemodynamic support.
Watch a VIDEO demonstration of how the Impella percutaneous hemodynamic support pump works.
Kim A. Williams, Sr., M.D., MACC, MASNC, FAHA, FESC, cardiology division chief and James B. Herrick professor at Rush University Medical Center, discusses the importance of nuclear cardiology in preventive medicine, and previews his upcoming keynote lecture at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), Sept. 6-9 in San Francisco.
Watch the related VIDEO ASNC 2018 Program Preview, where Rami Doukky, M.D., professor of medicine, preventive medicine and radiology, and chief of the Division of Cardiology at Cook County Health and Hospitals System, discusses new additions to the ASNC meeting program for 2018.
Watch the VIDEO MACRA's Impact on Cardiology, an interview with Williams on the impact of healthcare reform on cardiology and specifically on nuclear perfusion imaging.
Rami Doukky, M.D., professor of medicine, preventive medicine and radiology, and chief of the Division of Cardiology at Cook County Health and Hospitals System, discusses new additions to the program for the 2018 annual meeting of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), Sept. 6-9 in San Francisco.
Watch the VIDEO: Imaging in the Assessment of Preventive Cardiology — interview with Kim Williams, M.D., about his key note lecture at the 2018 ASNC.
Watch the VIDEO: American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) Celebrates 25 Years — interview with Robert C. Hendel, M.D.
Watch the VIDEO Clinical Decision Support Requirements for Cardiac Imaging, an interview with Doukky at the 2017 ASNC Today meeting.
Leslee Shaw, Ph.D., professor of cardiology and radiology, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, and past-president of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), explains how cardiac imaging will be used in the ISCHEMIA Trial to assess treatment strategies for patients with stable ischemic heart disease. The trial was discussed by Shaw at the 2018 American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) meeting.
Watch the related VIDEO Role of Cardiac CT in Value-based Medicine, an interview with Shaw at SCCT 2017.
Jeffrey Schussler, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, FSCCT, FACP, interventional cardiologist at Baylor Scott White Heart and Vascular Hospital, Dallas, explains some of the key innovations his institution is using to improve cardiovascular care. These include the use of robotic percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), FFR-CT imaging and transcatheter valve technologies.
Take a 360 photo look inside a Baylor combo cardiac cath/EP lab.
Watch the VIDEO: Dedicated Cardiac MRI Use at the Baylor Scott White Heart Hospital — an interview with Haojie Wang, M.D., director of advanced cardiovascular MRI and a member of the heart valve clinic at Baylor Scott White Heart Hospital, Dallas.
Haojie Wang, M.D., director of advanced cardiovascular MRI and a member of the heart valve clinic at Baylor Scott White Heart Hospital, Dallas, explains the utility of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in cardiology and the implementation of the cardiac MRI program at his hospital.
See a 360 degree photo of the Baylor MRI control room.
Watch the VIDEO: Implementation of New Cardiovascular Technologies at Baylor Scott White Heart Hospital — interview with Jeffrey Schussler, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, FSCCT, FACP, interventional cardiologist at Baylor Scott White Heart and Vascular Hospital, Dallas.
Watch the VIDEO: Advances in Cardiac MRI Technology — Interview with James Carr, M.D.
Patrick Serruys, M.D., Ph.D., Imperial College London, explains where development of bioresorbable scaffolds stands in 2018. He spoke to DAIC at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) 2018 meeting.
Watch the related VIDEO What Went Wrong With the Absorb Stent?
Read the related article Current State of Bioresorbable Stent Technology
Read the related article Amaranth Unveils 85-micron Bioresorbable Stent
Robert C. Hendel, M.D., FACC, FAHA, MASNC, director, Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute, explains the impact the ASNC has had on cardiac nuclear imaging during this anniversary year.
The Annual Scientific Session of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology is Sept. 6-9, 2018, at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.
#ASNC2018
A discussion with Patricia Dickson, LRT(CT), director of imaging and outpatient services, Capital Cardiology Associates, Albany, N.Y., and Nikki Weber, RT(R)(CT)(M), a lead CT technologist at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. They presented in sessions at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) 2018 meeting.
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VIDEO: 10 Tips to Improve Cardiac CT Imaging
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Ed Nicol, M.D., FSCCT, MBA, head of cardiac CT, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, and chair of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) Education Committee. He outlined new initiatives by SCCT to expand its educational offerings. For more information on SCCT's online educational links go to https://scct.org/page/Education.
Link to the technologist video referenced in this interview that is among the most viewed videos on DAIC — VIDEO: How to Prepare a Patient for a Cardiac CT Scan.