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 | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | March 27, 2020
March 27, 2020 — The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has created a novel coronavirus resource page with...
Videos | FFR Technologies | March 26, 2020
James Udelson, M.D., chief of the division of cardiology, Tufts Medical Center, explains how cardiac computed...
The heart team at St. James University Hospital Dublin was the first to perform a human implant of the CroiValve Duo Tricuspid Coaptation Valve technology for tricuspid repair.
News | Heart Valve Technology | March 25, 2020
March 25, 2020 — CroiValve announced the successful first human use of its Duo Tricuspid Coaptation Valve technology...
Videos | Structural Heart Occluders | March 24, 2020
Interview with Carey Kimmelstiel, M.D., FACP, FACC, director, cardiac catheterization laboratory, director,...
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | March 23, 2020
March 23, 2020 — As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-cov-2) continues to spread, the Society for Cardiovascular...
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | March 20, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
March 20, 2020 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced March 18, 2020, that all elective...
Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | March 20, 2020
An interview with Ehtisham Mahmud, M.D., FSCAI, chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, executive director of...
Videos | Heart Failure | March 13, 2020
Interview with Navin Kapur, M.D., FAHA, FACC, FSCAI, executive director, The CardioVascular Center for Research and...
Philips Healthcare's new Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) technology creates real-time 3-D imaging of anatomy and devices inside the body using light, rather than X-rays. FORS uses light traveling through hair-thin fiber optics inside special FORS enabled catheter and guidewires.
Feature | Angiography | March 12, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
Philips is working on a prototype cath lab angiographic imaging system that might be able to replace the current X-ray...
The COVID-19 mortality rate for patients cardiovascular disease is 10.5 percent based of data from Chinese hospitals since the outbreak. COVID-19 fatality rates for patients with comorbidities are higher than the average population, but cardiac patients had the highest death rate.
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | March 09, 2020
March 9, 2020 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) is offering updates on the clinical impact of novel...
News | Interventional Radiology | March 09, 2020 | Melinda Taschetta-Millane
March 9, 2020 — As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) slowly spreads across the globe, more industry conferences are...
Feature | ACC | March 09, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
March 9, 2020 — Less than week after the American College of Cardiology (ACC) said it would push ahead with holding its...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the FDA clearance of the Micra AV, the world’s smallest pacemaker with atrioventricular (AV) synchrony, topped the news analytics in February 2020 on DAIC magazine. COVID-19 virus image courtesy of CDC.
Feature | March 02, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
March 2, 2020 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC)...
Videos | Structural Heart | February 27, 2020
Charles D. Resor, M.D., MSc, assistant director, cardiac catheterization lab, Tufts Medical Center and assistant...
The Aria CV Pulmonary Hypertension System.
News | Hypertension | February 27, 2020
February 27, 2020 — Aria CV Inc. completed a $31 million Series B round of financing to fund its first clinical study...
