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).

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March 6, 2007 — A first-of its-kind study has shown that cardiac arrhythmias, one of the most common yet ...

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Feature | Maureen Leahy

Today’s busy emergency departments have an arsenal of imaging tools at their disposal when triaging and diagnosing ...

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Feature | Stephen B. Randall, BSIE, CIE and Daniel J. Drake, MSN, RN

The prevalence of obesity in the U.S. is alarming, claiming nearly a third of the nation's adult population, according ...

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Feb. 23, 2007 — Heart device maker Edwards Lifesciences Corp. received a warning this week from the FDA about the ...

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FDA has granted approval to the Cordis Endovascular division of Cordis Corp. to market its PRECISE RX Nitinol Self ...

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Feature | By Ed Susman

Positive AAA Results with Endovascular Approach

Endovascular aortic repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms ...

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Technology


The new AngioJet Ultra Thrombectomy System is a next-generation, completely re-engineered version of Possis' ...

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Technology

Rapidly cooling a patient's core temperature, the ThermoSuit System consists of a disposable body suit and a means to ...

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Feb. 7, 2007 — Cardium Therapeutics and its operating unit InnerCool Therapies have announced they will launch two next ...

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Technology

The first interwoven nitinol self-expanding stent available in the U.S. for palliative treatment of malignant strictures ...

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Feb. 7, 2007 — Abbott has announced its plan to launch the world's first drug-eluting stent clinical trial solely in ...

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Feature | Mark Paquin

Author’s Note: For this inaugural article I begin with an insider’s look on the “health” of drug-eluting stents ...

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Feb. 6, 2007 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released new proposed policy in which coverage ...

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Feb. 1, 2007 — Cook Medical released nine-month data this week for its PTX Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent (DES) trial, which ...

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Feb. 1, 2007 — Stockholders of Conor Medsystems, Inc. have approved the merger agreement between Conor and Johnson & ...

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