Cath Lab Navigation Aids

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for navigation aids to help guide interventional procedures. These include advanced imaging, fusion imaging, rotational angiograpy, fluoro overlay images, robotic systems, and 3D printing and holograms for use in the interventional lab or cath lab.

Videos | Congenital Heart

VIDEO: Advances in Congenital Heart Therapy Technologies

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratories, Seattle Children’s Hospital, explains some of the new ...

May 26, 2021

Videos | Robotic Systems

VIDEO: Interventional Stroke Care May be Aided by Robotic Cath Lab Telemedicine

Ehtisham Mahmud, M.D., division chief of cardiovascular medicine, director of interventional cardiology and the cardiac ...

May 18, 2021

Videos | Robotic Systems

VIDEO: Robotic PCI Performed Well in Real-world Population in the PRECISION GRX Study

Ehtisham Mahmud, M.D., division chief of cardiovascular medicine, director of interventional cardiology and the cardiac ...

May 18, 2021

The FLOWER-MI trial presented at ACC 2021 found no benefit to FFR-guided PCI in STEMI with multi-vessel disease. #ACC21 #ACC2021 #FFR

News | FFR Technologies

No Benefit to FFR-guided PCI in STEMI Patients With Multi-Vessel Disease

May 17, 2021 — In patients who received a coronary stent for an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) heart attack ...

May 17, 2021

There is a trend in interventional cardiology that is now being called “renalism,” where patients with poor renal function are being excluded from interventional procedures because they are automatically considered too high risk. However, some hospitals are also creating cardio-renal care teams so these patients can be cared for by a team of experts rather than interventional cardiologists going it alone. #SCAI21 #SCAI2021 Creating a card0-renal program.

Feature | Cath Lab | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Creating a Cardio-renal Program to Expand Patient Volume

There is a trend in interventional cardiology that is now being called “renalism,” where patients with poor renal ...

May 14, 2021

Explaining the Emory TMVR angle. Discordance between mitral annular centerline (yellow lines) and valve orientation imposed by guidewire position within the LV apex (red dashed lines). (B) Valve intrinsic angle (α) is determined by external skirt height. (C) When annular-apical “Emory” angle (red curves) exceeds α (blue curve), annular skirt apposition is not possible, causing PVL (red arrows). (D) The valve is oriented perpendicular to the annual plane using an exteriorized apical guidewire.

Feature | Structural Heart | By Dave Fornell, Editor

The Emory Angle Can Help Eliminate Paravalvular Leak in Transcatheter Mitral Interventions

The mitral valve anatomy is extremely complex, which has caused many challenges for transcatheter mitral valve ...

May 13, 2021

Abbott recently announced its new interventional imaging platform powered by Ultreon 1.0 Software, has gained European CE marked. This first-of-its-kind imaging software merges optical coherence tomography (OCT) intravascular imaging with the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for enhanced visualization. The new Ultreon Software can automatically detect the severity of calcium-based blockages and measure vessel diameter to enhance the precision of physicians’ decision-making during coronary stenting proc

News | Cath Lab

Abbott’s New Artificial Intelligence OCT Coronary Imaging Platform Launches in Europe

May 12, 2021 — Abbott recently announced its new interventional imaging platform powered by Ultreon 1.0 Software, has ...

May 12, 2021

The Corindus CorPath robotic cath lab navigation system allows operators to sit and control the procedure from behind a lead-lined booth, so they do not have to wear heavy aprons during the procedures. Christoper Baker, M.D., Hoag Memorial Hospital using the system. #SCAI21 #SCAI2021

Feature | Robotic Systems

Second Generation Robotic PCI System Performs Well Across Spectrum of Lesion Complexity

May 5, 2021 — A late-breaking study of the Siemens Healthineers Corindus Corpath GRX second-generation cath lab robotic ...

May 05, 2021

A reconstructed vessel segment from a cone-beam CT created table side in the cath lab with the Philips Azurion SmartCT software.

News | Angiography

Philips SmartCT Enables 3D Image Acquisition in the Cath Lab

April 7, 2021 — Philips Healthcare announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Philips ...

April 07, 2021

Videos | Cath Lab

VIDEO: Standardizing PCI Through Smart Robotic Procedural Automation

Corindus, a Siemens Healthineers company and a developer of vascular robotics, recently launched a new set of automated ...

April 02, 2021

Driven by pandemic realities and clinical demand for portable and intelligent point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), GE Healthcare unveiled Venue Fit, a streamlined and compact POCUS system, alongside an industry-first artificial intelligence (AI) offering for cardiac imaging on the Venue and Venue Go. The Venue Fit is the smallest system in GE Healthcare’s Venue Family, featuring an easy-to-clean touchscreen, intuitive scanning tools, and a small footprint designed to fit in tight spaces often found in point-of

News | Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

GE Healthcare Expands Ultrasound Family with New Point of Care System and AI Offering

March 31, 2021 — Driven by pandemic realities and clinical demand for portable and intelligent point-of-care ultrasound ...

March 31, 2021

An example of intra-cardiac echo (ICE) imaging from Siemens Healthineers showing color flow Doppler with severe valve regurgitation. ICE has seen wider use in transcatheter structural heart procedures because, unlike TEE, it can be used without deeper sedation of anesthesia.

Feature | Ultrasound Intra-cardiac Echo (ICE) | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Trends and Advancements in Intra-cardiac Echo Imaging Systems

Intra-cardiac Echocardiography (ICE) uses catheter-based cardiac ultrasound array to image anatomy and devices inside ...

March 11, 2021

News | Cath Lab

SpectraWave Received $13.2 Million in Financing to Commercialize new Intracoronary Imaging Technology

February 16, 2021 – SpectraWave Inc. announced a $13.2 million series A-2 financing to support completion of product ...

February 16, 2021

The EndoWays disposable robotic system for cath lab procedural navigation. EndoWays, developer of a disposable robotic system for the cath lab, announced the completion of an acquisition of a majority of its shares by Ascendum

News | Robotic Systems

First Disposable Cath Lab Robot Technology Acquired by Ascendum

February 9, 2021 — EndoWays, developer of a disposable robotic system for the cath lab, announced the completion of an ...

February 09, 2021

An example of 3-D computer aided design (CAD) software from Materialise being used at Henry Ford Hospital to evaluate left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction from a Sapian TAVR valve virtually implanted in the mitral valve position. Henry Ford uses both 3-D printing and CAD to plan and guide complex structural heart procedures.

Feature | Medical 3-D Printing | By Dave Fornell, Editor

3-D Printing and Computer Aided Design Aids Structural Heart Interventions

With increasing complexity of interventional structural heart disease and congenital heart disease interventions, 3-D ...

January 24, 2021