Five global MRI manufacturers—in the United States, Europe and Asia—have selected ContextVision’s GOPView MRI2Plus to upgrade their MRI equipment. Today’s healthcare industry requires improved efficiencies without sacrificing patient safety. As radiologists around the world review an increasing number of MRI images every day, image quality is key. 


Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is considered the gold standard in determining the hemodynamic significance of coronary lesions, but its use remains low. Two new technologies may help increase its use. 
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A German court ordered Nov. 14 the discontinuation of a prior court ruling that prohibited Medtronic from commercially marketing or selling the CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system in Germany since Aug. 26, 2013.

GE Healthcare will introduce new software to help humanize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the DV24.0 Continuum Pak Silent Scan noiseless MRI at the Radiological Society of North America 2013 Annual Meeting (RSNA 2013) in Chicago.

The first two commercial implants of the Boston Scientific Lotus Valve System have taken place in a German hospital. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified the Medtronic’s recently initiated voluntary recall of certain interventional guidewires as a Class I recall.

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In an expert consensus document e-published in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions (CCI), the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) offers recommendations for optimal use of three technologies that interventional cardiologists often use to assess the severity of blockages in heart arteries.
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