Like an eyewitness to a freight train bearing down on a rocket fuel truck at a railroad crossing, I couldn’t avoid watching the ensuing carnage after two individuals who underwent positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with CardioGen-82 (Rubidium Rb 82 Generator) triggered airport radiation sensors in May 2011. Hung up on the tracks… Bracco Diagnostics, healthcare providers and their patients. Inbound at 60 miles-per-hour and weighing in at 15,000 tons… the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  

August 30, 2012 — Aspirin combined with the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel is no better than aspirin alone for stroke prevention in people with a history of lacunar strokes, and the combination carries a greater risk of gastrointestinal bleeding, according to results of a trial funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Lacunar strokes occur due to chronic high blood pressure and typically produce small lesions deep within the brain.


August 30, 2012 — Baseline data from the first cohort of the Global Anticoagulant Registry in the Field (GARFIELD), an innovative, academic research initiative, shows that established, evidence-based guidelines for preventing stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are not being followed in many patients and across diverse populations.

August 30, 2012 — According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), an authority on the medical technology market, as significant numbers of peripheral vascular and vascular access procedures move out of the hospital setting and into a variety of outpatient facilities, manufacturers of peripheral vascular stents, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) balloons, atherectomy devices, thrombectomy devices and dialysis catheters will face new and complex challenges in marketing their products.

August 30, 2012 — Implantable devices for treating cardiac arrhythmias, which include implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), are already underused in parts of Eastern and Central Europe and there is a risk that the financial crisis could exacerbate the problem. The European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), is tackling this issue through ICD for Life. The initiative aims to raise awareness about the importance of ICDs and sudden cardiac death in countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

August 30, 2012 — Copeptin predicts prognosis in patients with heart failure, according to research presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress this week Professor Stefan Störk from Germany. This estimate of prognosis may be drawn from clinical information describing the patient´s general condition, dedicated diagnostic examinations, or laboratory measurements.

 

Elixir Medical Corp. announced it received CE (Conformité Européenne) mark approval for its drrug-eluting stent (DES) DESyne BD novolimus-eluting coronary stent system for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

August 30, 2012 — Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) improves heart function and could become a novel treatment option for heart failure, according to research presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich, Germany, by Hung-Fat Tse from Hong Kong.

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