July 18, 2018 — Abbott announced it received approval from the U.S.
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This channel contains news about the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference presented by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). It includes coverage from the annual meeting and links CRF news. TCT is the premier conference for the subspecialty of interventional cardiology, including the new subspecialty areas of transcatheter structural heart procedures.
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About 50 percent of patients in cardiogenic shock do not survive, and account for about 90,000 heart attack patients a year who show up in hospital emergency departments.
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Medtronic plc has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for 200mm and 250mm lengths of the In.Pact Admiral Drug-Coated Balloon (DCB) to treat long superficial femoral artery (...
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Abbott announced it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Xience Sierra, the newest generation of the company's Xience everolimus-eluting coronary stent system....
Technology | Heart Valve Technology | July 18, 2018
July 18, 2018 — Abbott announced it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a next-...
William O'Neill, M.D., unveils the Detroit Cardiogenic Shock Initiative at Henry Ford Hospital. The program uses new protocols to reduce cardiogenic shock mortality by 50 percent by using early hemodyanmic support.
Feature | Hemodynamic Support Devices | June 22, 2018 | Dave Fornell, Editor
About 50 percent of patients in cardiogenic shock do not survive, and account for about 90,000 heart attack patients...
Technology | Annuloplasty Rings | June 15, 2018
June 15, 2018 — LivaNova PLC announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its...
Technology | Drug-Eluting Balloons | June 15, 2018
June 15, 2018 — Medtronic plc has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for 200mm and 250mm...
Technology | Stents Drug Eluting | May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018 — Abbott announced it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Xience...
An example of Siemens' syngo CTO navigation technology that fuses computed tomogragraphy (CT) imaging with live angiography to help navigate chronic total occlusion vessel segments that are occluded and not visible on angiography alone.
Feature | Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) | February 20, 2018 | Dave Fornell
One of the recent hot topics in interventional cardiology has been how operators can use new tools and techniques to...
Videos | Radial Access | February 16, 2018
The father of transradial artery access, Ferdinand Kiemeneij, M.D., Ph.D., interventional cardiologist, The...
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | February 15, 2018
February 15, 2018 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. has received European CE mark clearance for its self-expanding...
News | Stents Drug Eluting | January 25, 2018
January 25, 2018 – Data presented at the Biotronik-sponsored...
News | Stents | January 25, 2018
January 25, 2018 – Elixir Medical Corporation, a leader in the development of breakthrough adaptive remodeling...
A live CoreValve TAVR case in the main arena at TCT 2017. Structural heart has moved from a science fiction discussion in future technology sessions at TCT a decade ago to now being a major portion of what the conference discusses for today's clinical practice.
Blog | TCT | January 18, 2018
Here is a list of what I think were some of the top interventional technologies discussed at the 2017 Transcatheter...
The Abbott Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS).
Feature | Stents Drug Eluting | January 17, 2018 | Dave Fornell
There was no shortage of interest in bioresorbable stent technologies at the many sessions offered on this topic or...
Videos | Cath Lab | January 04, 2018
Bernadette Speiser, BSN, MSN, CCRN, RCIS, a cardiac cath/EP nurse at Palo Alto Veterans Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif...
Videos | Heart Valve Technology | January 04, 2018
Adam Greenbaum, M.D., co-director, Center for Structural Heart Disease, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, explains how...
Videos | Angiography | November 22, 2017
Shimadzu demonstrated its Trinias Interventional X-ray System at the 2017 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics...
