Feature | Habib Samady, M.D.
Editor’s note: Dr. Samady is an associate professor of medicine, division of cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta. He wrote the following commentary on his experience with FFR and its impact on patient care.
February 10, 2010
Feature | Dave Fornell
Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is starting to change cardiologists’ minds about how to treat patients since the release of two-year results from the FAME (FFR vs. Angiography in Multivessel Evaluation) trial at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2009. It showed FFR lowers costs by reducing the number of stents and produces better patient outcomes.
February 10, 2010
Feature | By Jeffrey A. Breall, M.D., Ph.D.
In today’s market, many vendors have very good cardiovascular picture archiving and communications systems (PACS). One needs to only hit the exhibit floor for a short time at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) or the American College of Cardiology (ACC) before it becomes apparent that there is a myriad of systems available right now that are excellent and fairly user friendly.
February 10, 2010Sponsored Content
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PicomSR, ScImage's portable structured reporting suite for echocardiography, offers embedded wall motion scoring. The reporting suite's other tools include structured reporting for nuclear medicine and the cardiac cath lab.
February 09, 2010Technology
PicomWeb is a light, zero-footprint, content delivery mechanism for diagnostic images and related documents is based on Adobe Flash technology. It allows interactive ECG waveforms viewing that are rendered on the fly. This allows clinicians to modify the speed and gain of the tracing for a more precise view of the ECG morphology, whether the user is investigating from a PC or a smart phone.
February 09, 2010
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February 9, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is starting a program designed to reduce unnecessary medical radiation exposure that will focus on three types of imaging procedures: computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine and fluoroscopy. The FDA considers those procedures the greatest contributors to total U.S.
February 09, 2010Sponsored Content
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February 9, 2010 – The FDA approved CRESTOR (rosuvastatin calcium) to reduce the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction and arterial revascularization procedures in individuals without clinically evident coronary heart disease.
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February 9, 2010 – Researchers are developing technology that they hope will one day prevent thrombus formation on cardiovascular devices without the use of anticoagulation drugs.
February 09, 2010
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February 9, 2010 – Off-pump bypass surgery, or “beating heart surgery,” was developed in hopes of creating a safer way to fix cholesterol-clogged coronary arteries.
February 08, 2010Sponsored Content
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Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
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February 9, 2010 – In response to increasing demand for its radio frequency identification (RFID) units in Europe, Terso Solutions Inc. has formed Terso GmbH in Mannheim, Germany.
February 08, 2010
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The LifeDop 300 ABI from Summit Doppler Systems is an economical, hand-held ankle brachial index (ABI) system allows clinicians to perform the exam faster. The system has a keypad feature for easily entering pressure data and calculating the indices. It stores pressure data and two ankle waveforms prior to printing.
February 08, 2010
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The Vista AVS from Summit Doppler Systems Inc. is a full-featured ankle brachial index (ABI)/vascular system using different modalities for obtaining systolic pressures and waveforms. Either a bi-directional Doppler probe or pulse volume recording (PVR) can be used to obtain ankle waveforms required for reimbursement.
February 08, 2010Sponsored Content
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When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
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At ACC 2010, Philips Healthcare will focus on the full spectrum of cardiology care – from diagnosis and treatment to disease management and home monitoring to enhance patient care.
February 08, 2010Technology
Philips Healthcare's CT systems use the iDose application that enables clinicians to reduce X-ray radiation dose by up to 80 percent.
February 08, 2010
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February 8, 2010 – Partnering with leading implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and pacemaker manufacturers, ScottCare Corp. has consolidated device information into one common platform with enhanced reporting and analysis capabilities. The newst addition to the CardioView Dx suite of diagnostic solutions is OneView, designed to manage all pacer and ICD patients and information.
February 08, 2010