Conference Coverage

This channel highlights DAIC's coverage of numerous key cardiology and medical imaging conferences each year. These include ACC, AHA, ASE, ASNC, EuroPCR, ECR, HIMSS, HRS, RSNA, SCAI, SCCT, TCT, and VIVA.

The safety of paclitaxel-eluting stents and drug-coated balloons was called into question in a recent study that showed higher mortality rates after two years. The Cook Zilver PTX paclitaxel-eluting peripheral stent is among the devices included in that study.

Feature | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) | Dave Fornell, Editor

Safety of Paclitaxel-eluting Stents and Balloons Called Into Question

The anti-proliferative drug paclitaxel has been used as a coating on coronary stents to prevent restenosis since 2003 ...

January 25, 2019

News | Artificial Intelligence

Siemens Healthineers Debuts AI-Rad Companion Chest CT

January 25, 2019 — Siemens Healthineers presented its first intelligent software assistant for radiology, the AI-Rad ...

January 25, 2019

News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

ASE Releases New Guide to Performing Comprehensive Transthoracic Echo Exams

January 21, 2019 – Medical experts have released “Guidelines for Performing a Comprehensive Transthoracic ...

January 21, 2019

Technology

FDA Approves TactiCath Contact Force Ablation Catheter, Sensor Enabled

January 21, 2019 — Abbott announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the TactiCath Contact Force ...

January 21, 2019

This is 3-D blood flow view of blood flow through the chambers of a fetal heart using the GE Healthcare fetalHQ analysis software. #RSNA18 #RSNA #RSNA2018

Feature | RSNA | Dave Fornell, Editor

New Cardiac Imaging Technologies Unveiled at RSNA 2018

Many of the latest advances in cardiovascular imaging technologies are unveiled each year at the Radiological Society of ...

January 17, 2019

Technology | Angiography

Philips Launches Azurion With FlexArm

January 17, 2019 — Philips announced the launch of Azurion with FlexArm, designed to enhance positioning flexibility for ...

January 17, 2019

Artificial Intelligence in medical imaging was the top trend and buzz at RSNA 2018.

Feature | Artificial Intelligence | Dave Fornell, Editor

Applications for Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Imaging

Artificial intelligence (AI) was by far the hottest trend discussed in sessions and across the expo floor at the world's ...

January 17, 2019

News | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Partners With Philips for Health IT and Clinical Informatics

January 16, 2019 – Philips announced that NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has chosen to implement the company’s ...

January 16, 2019

The startup company Genetesis introduced a new cardiac imaging modalityit calls magnetocardiography. The scanner creates images from the biomagnetic activity of the heart, using the polarization and depolarization of the heart during the cardiac cycle. This was at AHA.18, AHA 2018 - the American Heart Association annual meeting

Feature | AHA | Dave Fornell, Editor

Key Technology and News at AHA 2018

Here are a few of the takeaways from the clinical studies presented and new technology shown on the exhibit floor at the ...

January 14, 2019

An implanted ICD showing its three venous leads. These multiple CRT leads can cause issues when they need to be replaced and are abandoned with new leads put over them in the SVC, which may require lead extraction.

Feature | EP Lab | Dave Fornell, Editor

New Approaches to EP Lead Management

To extract or abandon broken or infected implantable, venous electrophysiology (EP) device leads has been a debate for ...

January 13, 2019

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

SCCT Releases New Guideline for CT Use During TAVR

January 8, 2019 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has released a new expert consensus document ...

January 08, 2019

Technology | Heart Valve Technology

Edwards' Sapien 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve Receives FDA Approval

January 2, 2019 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that the Sapien 3 Ultra system has received U.S. Food and Drug ...

January 02, 2019

News | Cardiovascular Business

GE Submits Initial Public Offering Paperwork for Healthcare Division

December 19, 2018 — As part of its plans to spin off its healthcare division into a separate company, GE reportedly ...

December 19, 2018

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Canon Aquilion One CT Helps Gates Vascular Institute Adhere to New Stroke Guidelines

December 12, 2018 — In stroke, time saved on imaging is time gained in the treatment window. The recently updated ...

December 12, 2018

Videos

VIDEO: Walk Around of the Veriton SPECT-CT System

This is a walk around of the new Spectrum Dynamics Veriton SPECT-CT nuclear imaging system introduced at the 2018 Radiol ...

December 12, 2018