Here is an aggregation of all the news and late-breaking studies presented at the 2018...
SCAI
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.
Richard Schatz, M.D., (center) research director of cardiovascular interventions at the Heart, Lung, and Vascular Center at Scripps Clinic, speaking at a 2018 SCAI session on collaboration with industry to bring new device technologies to market. He is best known as the co-inventor of the first coronary stent, the Palmaz-Schatz stent. Left is Ziyad Hijazi, M.D., MPH, director of the Sidra Cardiac Program, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha, Qatar, who has been active in new device technologies for structural heart disease.
Feature | SCAI | May 14, 2018
News | Heart Valve Technology | May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 — A new study looked at the effectiveness of a novel risk tool to predict 30-day readmission rates in...
News | Pulmonary Embolism | May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 — Results of the FlowTriever Pulmonary Embolectomy (FLARE) study were presented as late-breaking...
News | May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 — Two studies examining seasonal variations in cardiac-related hospitalizations, specifically...
News | Heart Valve Technology | May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 — Medtronic plc announced two-year outcomes for the Harmony...
A MitraClip device being deployed to clasp together the leaflets of the mitral valve. This mimics a surgical suture repair to create a double orifice valve with better leaflet coaptation to prevent mitral regurgitation.
News | Structural Heart | May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 — The post-approval study evaluating the safety and efficacy of MitraClip in a real-world, commercial...
A patient injured by extreme exposure to X-ray radiation during an angiography procedure, which is included among the images in the consensus document. Severe skin injury typically appears four to eight weeks following the exposure. In extreme cases, the ulceration can become confluent and full thickness necrosis of skin may develop, exposing underlying fat, muscle and even bone.
News | Radiation Dose Management | May 10, 2018
May 10, 2018 — A new consensus document has been issued to guide the optimal use of ionizing radiation in...
News | Cath Lab | April 18, 2018
April 18, 2018 — Many of the world’s leading interventional cardiologists and cardiovascular professionals will...
News | Cath Lab | January 30, 2018
January 30, 2018 — The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) highlighted the efforts of...
Videos | TCT | November 15, 2017
DAIC Editor Dave Fornell shows some of the innovations displayed on the expo floor at the 2017 Transcatheter...
News | Radial Access | November 13, 2017
November 13, 2017 — The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions recently announced the launch of...
News | Cardiovascular Business | November 09, 2017
November 9, 2017 — In the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions’ (SCAI)...
News | Cath Lab | September 11, 2017
September 11, 2017 — Researchers have led a retrospective single-center...
News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies | August 16, 2017
August 16, 2017 — A study has examined the efficacies of various post-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)...
Feature | Cardiovascular Business | July 17, 2017
July 17, 2017 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2017 Medicare Trustees Report, the...
