December 8, 2008 - There has been much discussion in recent weeks of the 14-year-old patient from Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami living without a heart for more than 100 days, but what has not been reported are the facts behind the struggle as to how initially and immediately treat the young patient in post-transplant failure.

December 8, 2008 - New research reveals patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) who have had multiple, previous pocket procedures are at an increased risk of complications after ICD replacement.

The EmpowerCTA injector system offers both ACIST’s patented extravasation detection accessory (EDA) and a saline chase. This CT injector features air embolism protection, on-the-fly flow rate manipulation and syringe loading and arming at the injector.

Developers in New York are planning to build The World Product Centre, which will be reportedly the world’s first permanent international healthcare marketplace and education center.

December 5, 2008 - CeloNova BioSciences Inc. said this week it expanded the areas in which it is commercializing the CATANIA Coronary Stent System with NanoThin Polyzene-F, a stent system that has not had any stent thrombosis in clinical studies.

It is CE marked and available for purchase throughout Europe and now some Middle Eastern countries. CeloNova has received regulatory approval to increase the shelf life for the stent from two years to three years.

December 5, 2008 - Lebanon County, PA cardiologist Jeffrey L. Williams, M.D., MS, FACC, is the author of a study released in the Journal of Interventional Cardiology, “Feasibility of Myxomatous Mitral Valve Repair Using Direct Leaflet and Chordal Radiofrequency Ablation,” and is said to be the first in the world to describe a completely catheter-based intracardiac ablation approach to repair mitral valve prolapse causing severe mitral regurgitation.

December 5, 2008 – ContextVision introduced its GOPView iRVPlus, a new image enhancement and dose reduction software package for interventional radiology, this week at RSNA 2008 in Chicago.

December 5, 2008 - As the next phase in validating advanced computed tomography technology in a clinical setting, Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. will support CORE 320, the largest worldwide multi-center trial comparing the effectiveness of 320-detector row dynamic volume CT to SPECT technology in cardiac evaluation.

December 4, 2008 - Medical imaging company Barco is expanding its portfolio of medical displays this week at RSNA with a brand-new family of clinical review displays - the MDRC will provide a quality, budget-friendly visualization solution for a wide spectrum of applications throughout hospitals.

December 4, 2008 - A first-ever 208-person study comparing the renal safety, occurrence of cardiovascular adverse events and diagnostic image quality of GE Healthcare's isosmolar contrast media (CM) iodixanol (Visipaque) and the low-osmolar CM iopromide in select patients concluded iodixanol is associated with lower incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) and cardiovascular events (CV) than

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