May 23, 2012 -- Boston Scientific Corp. announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval and market launch of the Epic Vascular Self-Expanding Stent System. The Epic Stent is designed to open blocked arteries in patients with iliac artery stenosis, a form of peripheral vascular disease associated with severe leg pain caused by insufficient blood flow.

May 23, 2012 — Boston Scientific Corp. announces that the Synergy everolimus-eluting bioabsorbable polymer-coated platinum chromium coronary stent demonstrated noninferior results in treating de novo coronary artery lesions at one year compared to the Promus Element everolimus-eluting platinum chromium stent in the EVOLVE first human use trial. The trial reported one-year clinical and six-month intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) outcomes data, evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the bioabsorbable abluminal polymer-coated Synergy stent. 

May 23, 2012 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Ellipse implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Designed with feedback from more than 200 physicians from around the world, the Ellipse ICD offers physicians unique design advancements, resulting in the industry’s smallest high-energy ICD.

http://www.bostonscientific.comMay 23, 2012 — Boston Scientific Corp. announced two-year results from the PLATINUM Small Vessel study, demonstrating excellent safety and effectiveness outcomes for the 2.25 mm Promus Element everolimus-eluting platinum chromium (PtCr) stent system in treating de novo coronary lesions in small coronary vessels. Analysis of the data was presented at EuroPCR 2012 in Paris.

May 22, 2012 — CardioKinetix Inc. announced two-year clinical results for the first-of-its-kind catheter-based Parachute ventricular partitioning device, a percutaneous ventricular restoration (PVR) therapy for patients with ischemic heart failure.

May 22, 2012 — New long-term data from the DIVERGE study presented at EuroPCR 2012 showed that the use of the Axxess drug-eluting stent (DES) for the treatment of complex coronary bifurcation lesions resulted in low levels of both MACE (major adverse cardiac events) and VLST (very late stent thrombosis) over a four-year period.

May 22, 2012 - As the picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) market has developed over the last decade, the variety of images, formats and procedures available in digital form in departmental silos has proliferated. Increasingly, healthcare providers are implementing central platforms to consolidate storage, thereby reducing PACS data migration costs and enabing better data mining and data sharing across departments.

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