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 Failure | July 09, 2020
July 9, 2020 – The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF) is conducting additional research on a novel hydrogel...
Leeds Hospital recently installed Philips Azurion angiography interventional labs to enhance procedural guidance capabilities.
News | Cardiovascular Business | July 08, 2020
July 8, 2020 – Philips Healthcare and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust announced a seven-year managed service...
News | Drug-Eluting Balloons | July 07, 2020
July 7, 2020 – MedAlliance announced enrollment of the first patient in its study of Selution SLR 0.014 drug-eluting...
The Medis QFR technology allows non-invasive functional FFR assessment of coronary flow based on standard X-ray angiographic images in the cath lab without the use of a pressure wire.
Feature | FFR Technologies | July 07, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
Fractional flow reserve (FFR) pressure wires have been used now in interventional cardiology procedures for more than a...
News | Cath Lab | July 06, 2020
July 6, 2020 — Black patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are at an increased risk for major...
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Drug-coated balloons (DCB), also referred to as drug-eluting balloons, are used to treat peripheral and coronary artery...
News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies | July 01, 2020
July 1, 2020 — Carag AG announced receiving U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Investigational Device Exemption (...
News | Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) | June 26, 2020
June 26, 2020 — Abbott announced new data from the company's LightLab Initiative that showed optical coherence...
The Medtronic Symplicity Spyral renal denervation catheter in the renal artery, showing how its four electrodes contact the vessel wall for a single RF energy delivery procedure. By ablating the vessel walls, it props the vessel in a fully open position, allowing the kidneys to better filter the blood and remove excess water in hypertension patients.
News | Renal Denervation | June 26, 2020
June 26, 2020 – New data from the Global SYMPLICITY Registry (GSR) showed that renal denervation (RDN) with the...
Navin Kapur, M.D., Tufts Medical Center, shows preCardia device and its anatomical positioning in the patient.
News | Heart Failure | June 23, 2020
June 23, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Program status for the...
Signs for "Heroes work here" outside healthcare facilities and even the homes of clinicians have popped up across the country. This photo shows healthcare workers at the Lenox Hill emergency room entrance being greeted to cheers and thanks for their essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City at a public thank you event May 21, 2020.
Blog | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 22, 2020
Prior to January 2020 when clinicians read about the history of the 1918 flu, and epidemiologists predicted we were...
News | Heart Valve Technology | June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020 — SMT (Sahajanand Medical Technologies Pvt. Ltd) said it acquired of the structural heart medical device...
News | Drug-Eluting Balloons | June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020 — iVascular SLU announced the global launch of Essential Pro, a novel coronary artery drug-coated balloon...
News | Drug-Eluting Balloons | June 18, 2020
June 17, 2020 — MedAlliance announced its second CE mark approval for its Selution SLR 0.014 percutaneous transluminal...
News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) | June 16, 2020
June 16, 2020 — The 36-month results from Veryan Medical’s MIMICS-2 study for the BioMimics 3D femoropopliteal stent...
