June 10, 2019 – W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s)...
Cath Lab
The catheterization lab channel includes content related to interventional technologies for coronary and peripheral artery disease (PAD). Other cath lab transcatheter device technologies covered on this page included percutaneous treatment for stroke, venous interventions, heart valves, hypertension, heart failure and percutenous coronary interventions (PCI).
News | Heart Valve Technology | June 04, 2019
June 4, 2019 — Royal DSM recently announced a collaboration with Strait Access Technologies (SAT), to develop the...
Technology | Angiography | June 04, 2019
June 4, 2019 — Medis Medical Imaging Systems B.V. has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
Figure 1. Examples of expected smooth (left) and dislodged (right) fairing tip. Image courtesy of FDA.
News | Vascular Access | May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019 — Terumo Medical Corp. is recalling the SoloPath Balloon Expandable TransFemoral System and Re-...
News | Drug-Eluting Balloons | May 29, 2019
May 29, 2019 — Philips announced the three-year results from the ILLUMENATE Pivotal trial and the ILLUMENATE...
News | Robotic Systems | May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019 — Corindus Vascular Robotics Inc. announced its CorPath GRX System was successfully used to perform a...
News | CT Angiography (CTA) | May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019 — New data demonstrated that use of the investigational HeartFlow Planner, a real-time, non-invasive...
Using the terms plumber, electrician and carpenter are easy ways for most patients to understand when explaining the roles of specialists in complex cardiology procedures. In this image, interventional cardiologist "plumbers" and a cardiac surgeon "carpenter" work as part of the a structural heart team at Henry Ford Hospital while guiding the device using live echo images from the "video guy."
Blog | May 28, 2019
Physicians use many strategies to better interface with patients and their families to try and explain in non-...
News | Cardiac Diagnostics | May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 — People who skip breakfast and eat dinner near bedtime have...
News | Renal Denervation | May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 – Investigators unveiled late-breaking clinical data from a first-of-its-kind physician sponsored...
Technology | Radiation Dose Management | May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 — ControlRad Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) clearance...
Figure 1: Illustration showing the catheter steps for the LAMPOON procedure. From Dr. Jaffar M. Khan and the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Intervention, led by Dr. Robert J. Lederman.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | May 22, 2019
Researchers at the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health (...
News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 — Abiomed announced that the Impella CP with SmartAssist will be commercially available beginning at...
News | Heart Valve Technology | May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced strategic clinical and regulatory milestones for its Edwards...
