Venous Therapies
This channel includes news and new technology innovations of Venous Therapies including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and vena cava filters.
Technology | Cardiac Diagnostics | March 30, 2016
March 30, 2016 — The Smartdop XT by Koven is a fully automated vascular testing system that enables rapid, multiple-...
A pulmonary embolism visualized on a CTA scan using SureSubtraction software on a Toshiba Aquilion One Vision CT scanner.
Feature | Pulmonary Embolism | March 28, 2016 | Alain T. Drooz, M.D., FSVM, and David J. Spinosa, M.D.
Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) can pose a major treatment quandary for clinicians. While massive (high-risk) PE is...
News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies | March 21, 2016
March 21, 2016 — The use of novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) will see a substantial rise after an initially sluggish...
News | Intra-Vascular Ultrasound (IVUS) | February 29, 2016
February 29, 2016 — Philips announced that new clinical trial data demonstrates the benefits of its intravascular...
Technology | Pharmaceuticals | November 24, 2015
FDA Approves Dabigatran for Prophylaxis of DVT, Pulmonary Embolism and After Hip Replacement Surgery
November 24, 2015 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals’...
News | Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) | August 12, 2015
August 12, 2015 — The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended a new treatment to help...
News | March 12, 2015
March 12, 2015 — Pablo Uceda, M.D., vascular surgeon with DFW Vascular, Dallas, Texas, was successful in using a new...
Technology | March 12, 2015
March 12, 2015 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the VenaSeal closure system to permanently treat...
Feature | March 09, 2015
March 9, 2015 — NYU Langone Medical Center has announced the creation of a new multidisciplinary Venous Thromboembolic...
Ultrasound-accelerated, catheter-directed thrombolysis in the treatment of pulmonary embolism aids delivery of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), forcing it deep into the clot and allowing it to act faster.
Feature | March 05, 2015 | Jason T. Salsamendi, M.D., University of Miami Hospital
The continuity within clinical conference topics from year to year and how presentations augment one another tells us a...
Technology | March 04, 2015
March 4, 2015 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Xarelto Starter Pack for deep vein...
News | February 12, 2015
February 12, 2015 — A manufacturing error caused the balloon inflation ports to be mislabeled on Covidien’s Trellis 6...
News | January 21, 2015
January 21, 2015 — When retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filters were approved for use in the United States in 2003...
Image courtesy of Society of Vascular Surgery
Feature | January 05, 2015
January 5, 2015 — The first large-scale, multispecialty prospective clinical research trial to evaluate the use of...
Image courtesy of Boston Scientific
News | December 22, 2014
December 22, 2014 — Veniti Inc. announced that it has enrolled the first United States patients in the Virtus trial of...
