November 23, 2010 – Study results found significant differences in men and women older than 80 who underwent carotid surgical incision and carotid artery angioplasty and stenting. The results were presented by Caron B. Rockman, M.D., associate professor of surgery at the New York University School of Medicine at the VEITHsymposium.

November 23, 2010 - A new technique that combines the heat and energy of ultrasound with the highly targeted delivery of clot-busting drugs appears to be effective at treating patients with acute massive pulmonary embolism (PE).

The new treatment, called ultrasound-accelerated catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT), was developed by the Ekos Corporation.

Exam-Link is a regional health information organization (RHIO) image-sharing platform from CoActiv. The LINK provides RHIOs and other affiliated, authorized medical facilities with immediate access to all patient exams, wherever and whenever the exam was performed. The vendor-neutral, cloud-based solution combines a pre-indexing feature that enables remote Web-based image access with all the advanced features and security of the company’s Exam-Vault archiving.

November 22, 2010 – At the VEITHsymposium, physicians debated whether stents are usually required in the endovenous treatment of chronic venous disease.

Seshadri Raju M.D., professor emeritus of surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Flowood, Miss., said that detectable iliac vein stenosis is present in more than 90 percent of cases of chronic venous disease (CVD).

November 22, 2010 – A new whole-body, integrated magnetic resonance imaging/positron emission tomography (MRI/PET) system is capable of simultaneous data acquisition.

November 22, 2010 - An implantable medical device used in the minimally invasive treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms delivered strong results through one year of patient follow-up in a U.S. pivotal study. The trial data, which was presented at the VEITHsymposium, looked at the Endurant Stent Graft System, by Medtronic.

November 22, 2010 – Data presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2010 showed that percutaneous renal nerve ablation reduces blood pressure. The data, which was also published in The Lancet was from the Symplicity HTN-2 trial and looked at Ardian’s Symplicity Catheter System.

November 22, 2010 – The first noninvasive cardiovascular monitor with blood pressure and cardiac output measurements has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The ccNexfin, by BMEYE B.V., combines the company’s noninvasive technology with Masimo rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry for continuous hemoglobin and oxygen saturation monitoring.

November 19, 2010 – A new cloud-based 3-D advanced visualization and decision support system was introduced at the VEITHsymposium. The Gore 3-D Imaging System is powered by TeraRecon intuition Cloud Technology, and lets physicians simply drag and drop image files to a secure server.

November 18, 2010 – After the initial findings from the CREST trial, debate continues to swirl as proponents of both carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) claim superiority for their preferred intervention.

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