November 7, 2011 — The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), American Heart Association (AHA), and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) released a revised guideline for the management of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

November 7, 2011 — This year’s annual meeting of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), is changing its name to “EUROECHO & other Imaging Modalities.”

November 7, 2011 — The Million Hearts initiative has announced new partners and commitments, including tools to reach cardiology professionals and consumers to prevent heart attacks and strokes. The announcements were made at the first gathering of Million Hearts? private and public organizations, called the Power of Million Hearts Partnerships.

November 7, 2011 – Abbott announced the company's schedule of key data presentations at the 23rd annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, to be held Nov. 7 – 11 in San Francisco. New data will be presented on two of Abbott's key investigational products: the MitraClip system and the Absorb bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS). One-year data for the Xience Prime everolimus-eluting coronary stent system, recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will also be presented. In addition, long-term data will be presented from the SPIRIT III and SPIRIT IV trials comparing Abbott's Xience V everolimus-eluting coronary stent system to the Taxus express paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system.

 

November 7, 2011 – Arterial Remodeling Technologies (ART) reported that in vivo data strongly suggest that its second-generation bioresorbable stent promotes positive arterial remodeling in a post-angioplasty porcine model at three months follow-up. In addition, acute safety data are excellent: there have been more than 250 MACE-free consecutive implantations of its bioresorbable stent in its preclinical phase of development.

 
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