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, hypertensionheart failure and percutenous coronary interventions (PCI).

Ticagrelor, Brillinta, is the newest antiplatelet agent on the market. Ticagrelor is a reversible nonthienopyridine P2Y12 receptor antagonist that prevents signal transduction and platelet activation.
Feature | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies | Nicole Fornell, Pharm D

The standard-of-care for dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) for more than a decade has been clopidogrel (Plavix) plus ...

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August 23, 2012 — Decision Resources, a research and advisory firm for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that ...

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August 23, 2012  Philips Healthcare and Corindus Vascular Robotics announced a distribution agreement for Corindus’ ...

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August 22, 2012 — Placement of an endovascular stent has become a common procedure for successfully reopening blocked ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

August 22, 2012 — Comedian Rosie O'Donnell’s heart attack last week is helping increase public education about how women ...

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August 14, 2012 — The next five years will see many hospitals in Europe overcoming the high cost and complexity of ...

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August 13, 2012 — Providers are increasingly focused on using interventional labs in a hybrid operating room (OR) enviro ...

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August 9, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing healthcare providers and patients that the ...

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Aug. 8, 2012 — Vascular Solutions Inc. launched the SuperCross FT, a new flexible-tip version of its line of SuperCross ...

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August 3, 2012 — GE Healthcare announced it has already received six orders for its Discovery IGS 730 system since ...

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Feature | Suzanne Winter, general manager, GE Healthcare interventional systems, Americas

Interventional procedures are growing rapidly and becoming more specialized in diverse areas of care.  In the next ...

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Access site complications, hemostasis management, vascular closure
Feature | Christopher Wilson, D.O., Kerri Wing, R.N., BSN, Peter Wassmer, M.D. FACC, Robert Sanchez M.D. FACC

Percutaneous coronary interventional (PCI) procedures are performed throughout hundreds of US institutions every day ...

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July 27, 2012 – The current Medicare payment system is irreparably flawed and a new, more permanent solution must be ...

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July 26, 2012 — Any exposure to radiation, no matter how small, has the potential of leading to future health issues ...

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July 26, 2012 — Angion Biomedica Corp. announced that the first patient was dosed in a Phase II multicenter clinical ...

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