DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a video tour of some of the most innovative new interventional cardiology technologies he ...
FFR Technologies
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for fractional flow reserve (FFR) wires, catheters and systems used to measure blood flow across a coronary lesion to determine if a stent is needed or if the plaque stenosis can be treated medically. The section includes iFR, instantaneous wave-free ratio, systems used in the cath lab and noninvasive FFR technologies including computed tomography-FFR. This is also referred to as CT-FFR or FFR-CT.
October 26, 2016 — Philips recently announced its latest image guidance solutions to be featured at the 2016 ...
October 10, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the U.S. clearance and launch of the company’s new PressureWire X ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
August 17, 2016 — Corindus Vascular Robotics Inc. and Acist Medical Systems Inc. are providing Fairview Southdale ...
June 29, 2016 — HeartFlow Inc. announced that it is launching its next generation of the HeartFlow FFR-CT Analysis. The ...
May 19, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced results from two cardiovascular clinical trials presented at EuroPCR 2016 ...

April 28, 2016 — Abbott and St. Jude Medical Inc. announced a definitive agreement for Abbott to acquire St. Jude ...

Fractional flow reserve-computed tomography (FFR-CT) is still in the early stages of clinical implementation in the ...
A discussion on the adoption rate of FFR-CT with Dr. Campbell Rogers, chief medical officer of HeartFlow. It is the ...
April 5, 2016 — Philips announced that a combined total of more than 5,000 patients have been enrolled in three ...
April 5, 2016 — Novel technology developed by HeartFlow Inc. significantly reduces the need for invasive procedures to ...

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Tom Watson, clinical analyst for MDBuyLine, and DAIC Editor Dave Fornell discuss some of the new cardiovascular and ...
Ziad Ali, M.D., associate director of translational medicine, Columbia University Medical Center / New York ...

October 18, 2015 — New results from a multicenter, prospective study show that assessing fractional flow reserve ...