ScottCare unveiled new advances for importing, monitoring and reviewing cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) data at this year’s Heart Rhythm Society’s scientific session last week.

Vascular Solutions Inc. announced that it has re-launched the Venture catheter, a deflectable-tip catheter used to provide guidewire directional control in challenging coronary and peripheral interventional procedures. The device is available immediately in the United States and expected to become available in select international markets over the next few months.

The Spectranetics Corporation announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of its adjunct analysis plan associated with the EXCITE ISR clinical trial, studying the treatment of in-stent restenosis (ISR) in the legs. The goal of the adjunct analysis plan is to demonstrate statistically significant clinical superiority of laser atherectomy plus balloon angioplasty (PTA) compared with PTA alone, prior to full enrollment of the EXCITE ISR study.

New study data released at the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) meeting last week validates the importance of contact force technology focused on improving the efficacy and safety of catheter ablation for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Unveiled in HRS abstracts, the data also demonstrated the ability of the Endosense TactiCath ablation catheter to detect excessive contact force during robotic catheter navigation.

Heart IT has released its WebPaxUniversal Viewer as an addition to its product portfolio. The new system allows hospitals and clinics to add Web-based, fully diagnostic image viewing to their existing infrastructure for both radiology as well as complex moving cardiology images. The WebPax Universal Viewer offers the same Web-based, zero-footprint image viewing technology that was first developed and patented by Heart Imaging Technologies.


nContact Inc. said it received conditional approval for an investigational device exemption (IDE) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin enrollment in the CONVERGE trial, a multicenter, prospective, randomized study evaluating patients with symptomatic persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). AF is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, a condition that disrupts the ability of the atria (upper chambers of the heart) to beat regularly and pump blood efficiently. The CONVERGE study, designed to investigate the epicardial/endocardial Convergent Procedure, combines the cardiac ablation expertise, techniques, and technologies of both electrophysiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons.

Biosense Webster Inc. announced the 12-month safety and effectiveness results of the Thermocool Smarttouch catheter and software module in the treatment of symptomatic, drug refractory, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) from the SMART-AF investigational device exemption (IDE) clinical trial. The results were presented at the Heart Rhythm Society’s 34th Annual Scientific Sessions by Andrea Natale, M.D., a member of the study advisory committee and executive medical director of the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas.

CardioPET

The next generation of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents will herald an age when PET will eclipse single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) as the “go to” modality for molecular imaging. It will do so by enabling personalized medicine through precision diagnostics, the ability to be delivered cost-effectively in a manner with less radiation to patients, by leveraging hardware advances already being commercialized, and by taking advantage of the extra throughput capacity present in the U.S. installed base of PET/CT scanners.
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