It struck me the other day that while thousands of healthcare information technology (HIT) executives flock to San Diego ...
Although implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have been around for nearly 20 years, they gained notoriety in 2001 when Vice President Dick Cheney became a high-profile patient who underwent the implantation procedure.
Minimally-invasive surgery has proven to be safer, requires a shorter hospital stay and is cosmetically preferred over ...
Cardiac PET/CT represents a major advancement in cardiovascular diagnostics, offering significant clinical and ...
Coronary bypass surgery, a difficult and painful way to repair major damage caused by coronary artery disease, may be on its way out — and it’s a long time coming for researchers like Douglas Losordo, M.D. After all, he’s spent the past 10 years looking into the possibilities of adult stem cell therapy as a viable alternative to the procedure.
The drug-eluting stent (DES) market is a multibillion dollar business in the U.S. — and it's estimated that over three ...
Although healthcare budgets are tight, needs are expanding. Clinical facilities are continuously looking for ways to ...
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A trend is emerging in cardiovascular image and information systems designed for the cath lab and was apparent on the ...
It's almost like taking a stab in the dark, but ablating one or more arrythmias within the human heart is a moment when ...
In the microscopic world of arterial plaque, the only positive thing about positive remodeling is that physicians can ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
Magnetic navigation technology to direct and digitally control catheter and guidewire devices along complex paths within ...
I only just heard the term “positive remodeling” for the first time last fall, and I assumed it was something, well, positive, like a self-mending process of some sort. But in the cardiac context of arterial remodeling, which refers to the build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries, positive remodeling is the worse of two types.
Are drug-eluting stents destined to fail? In Part 1 of this investigation, the connection of DES and thrombogenicity was ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
An asymptomatic 75-year-old woman with a history of coronary artery disease, angioplasty, coronary artery bypass ...
Beginning April 1, Terumo officially launches its own, full-scale marketing and sales program for all its products in ...
Women's heart health continues to grow as an awareness topic among the general public, and behind the scenes physicians ...
May 22, 2006
