Over the last 40 years, despite multiple advancements in percutaneous coronary interventions, calcified lesions remain a ...
Balloon Catheter
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for angioplasty balloon catheters (PTA). These are used in arteries with atherosclerotic lesions to compress the plaque expand the artery lumen to reopen occluded or heavily stenosed atherosclerotic lesions. Balloons are often used in combination with a stent to prop the treated vessel segment open. In addition to plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA), this section includes news about drug-coated balloon (DCB), valvuloplasty balloons and specialty cutting balloon.
![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/OCT_Angio_comparison_pre_post_Lithoplasty_sent_by_vendor.jpg?itok=znrcaSFG)
March 6, 2019 – Swiss-based M.A. MedAlliance SA has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food and ...
Clinical study data makes the world go around in cardiology and is the basis of setting guidelines in evidence-based ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
January 28, 2019 — Philips announced the latest pooled analysis of patient-level data of over 2,300 patients treated ...
January 17, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a letter Jan. 17, 2019, to healthcare providers ...
November 30, 2018 — Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies announced that Biosense Webster Inc. has enrolled and ...
In 2009, the GuideLiner Catheter revolutionized the concept of guide extension, creating new possibilities in ...
September 25, 2018 — Orchestra BioMed Inc. announced the three-year clinical results from its Sirolimus Angioplasty ...
September 24, 2018 — New data announced at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, Sept. 21 ...
August 23, 2018 — W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Gore) announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance ...
August 14, 2018 — NuCryo Vascular announced that the company has signed a commercialization agreement with Lokai Medical ...
June 15, 2018 — Medtronic plc has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for 200mm and 250mm lengths ...
May 29, 2018 – M.A. MedAlliance SA has raised $37 million to help develop and commercialize the first sirolimus micro ...
May 3, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the indication for the Medtronic In.Pact Admiral ...
![Serial coronary angiograms of the representative case treated with shockwave intravascular lithotripsy.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Angio_Calcified_CAD_treated_with_shockwave_DAIC_submitted_article.jpg?itok=G2zgiLY7)
Over the last decade, there have been considerable developments in procedural techniques and technology facilitating the ...