Cordis, a Cardinal Health company, recently announced the full U.S. launch of its Radial 360 portfolio, offering a complete range of products to facilitate the transradial approach (TRA) for...
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This channel contains news about the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), including coverage of its annual meeting and links to recently released practice guidelines. SCAI is a leading resource in interventional cardiology and cath lab techniques and technologies.
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May 8, 2019 — The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) 2019 Scientific Sessions will take place May 19-22, 2019 at the...
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March 27. 2019 — A newly released expert consensus statement provides recommendations for the safe and effective dissemination of newly approved patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure technologies.
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July 26, 2018 — A new multi-societal expert consensus document has been released that summarizes the position of these partnering organizations on the availability, delivery, organization and...
News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 — Abiomed announced that the Impella CP with SmartAssist will be commercially available beginning at...
Technology | Intravascular Imaging | May 20, 2019
May 20, 2019 — Philips announced the launch of the new IntraSight...
Image courtesy of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI).
News | Cardiogenic Shock | May 20, 2019
May 20, 2019 – A newly released expert consensus statement proposes a classification schema for...
Technology | Radial Access | May 15, 2019
May 15, 2019 — Cordis, a Cardinal Health company, recently announced the full U.S. launch of its Radial 360...
Khaldoon Alaswad, M.D., FSCAI, right, during a chronic total occlusion (CTO) case in his lab at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit. He is presenting in several SCAI 2019 sessions.
Feature | SCAI | May 08, 2019
May 8, 2019 — The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and...
News | Structural Heart Occluders | March 27, 2019
March 27. 2019 — A newly released expert consensus statement provides recommendations for the safe and effective...
Feature | SCAI | February 25, 2019 | Subhash Banerjee, M.D., FSCAI, Abu-Fadel Mazen, M.D., FSCAI and Rajesh Swaminathan, M.D., FSCAI
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) | January 25, 2019 | Dave Fornell, Editor
The anti-proliferative drug paclitaxel has been used as a coating on coronary stents to prevent restenosis since...
News | FFR Technologies | July 26, 2018
July 26, 2018 — The Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) released a focused update expert...
A CoreValve TAVR valve seen in a CT scan looking down from the aortic arch into the left ventricle using reconstruction software from TeraRecon.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | July 26, 2018
July 26, 2018 — A new multi-societal expert consensus document has been released that summarizes the position of...
Two versions of the Abiomed Impella percutaneous ventricular assist device displayed at ACC 2018. Impella is the only device that currently has a FDA indication for use in cardiogenic shock.
Feature | Hemodynamic Support Devices | July 08, 2018 | Emmanouil S. Brilakis, M.D., Ph.D., FSCAI and Srihari S. Naidu, M.D., FSCAI
Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a low-cardiac-output state resulting in life-threatening end-organ hypoperfusion and hypoxia...
Photo courtesy of the American Heart Association
News | Atrial Fibrillation | May 15, 2018
May 15, 2018 – Results of the AVIATOR 2 international registry data show a discrepancy between physician perception...
News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) | May 15, 2018
May 15, 2018 — The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has released new guidelines to...
News | Cath Lab | May 15, 2018
May 15, 2018 — Revised guidelines incorporating new data on discharge criteria for patients undergoing elective...
Feature | Cath Lab | May 15, 2018
May 15, 2018 – The large-scale, international randomized PRESERVE clinical trial found high-risk patients for renal...
