October 25, 2007 – Siemens highlighted at TCT 2007 the syngo DynaCT Cardiac solution, a planning tool that enables cross-sectional images to be acquired in the EP lab to guide intervention with a CT image taken on the same day as the procedure.

Previously, planning of procedures like atrial fibrillation ablations was based on CT or MR images acquired before the examination. Morphologic information of these preprocedural images was limited by the time lag to the actual procedure as the preprocedural approach does not account for dynamic changes in the anatomical structures.

October 25, 2007 — Two carotid stenting trials examining outcomes in real-world patients demonstrated for the first time results that are comparable to guidelines established by the American Heart Association (AHA) for patients treated with carotid artery surgery, the results of which were presented by William Gray, M.D., FACC, of Columbia University Medical Center in New York at TCT 2007.

October 25, 2007 - Early intervention saves lives in women who have a heart attack or unstable chest pain, according to research presented at TCT 2007, information that counters reports suggesting women do not fare as well as men following angioplasty.

October 25, 2007 - Terumo Interventional Systems announced at TCT 2007 the launch of the TR Band, a radial artery compression device designed to safely and comfortably stop bleeding after transradial procedures, designed to allow the clinician to easily check for clotting and to promote greater patient comfort.

October 25, 2007 - Study results presented at TCT 2007 demonstrated that the use of the isosmolar contrast medium Visipaque (iodixanol), a nonionic isosmolar contrast medium used for X-ray images of soft tissues, primarily blood vessels and organs, resulted in a statistically significantly lower rate of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) than the low osmolar nonionic contrast agent ioversol.

October 22, 2007 – IVUS integrated on GE Healthcare’s X-ray cath lab imaging system cut procedure time by up to 40 percent when compared to procedures performed on another GE Healthcare Innova using Volcano’s S5 standalone IVUS system, according to a time-motion study conducted at Providence Heart Institute in Columbia, SC, and presented at TCT 2007.

October 25, 2007 - Global Therapeutics, a Cook Medical company, said at TCT 2007 it will begin a clinical trial using AVI-5126, a next generation antisense drug. It will be included in a kit containing a bare metal stent and a site-specific catheter for drug delivery. In addition, Cook Medical has introduced a new lead extraction device named the “Evolution.”

October 25, 2007 - Paieon Inc. demonstrated at TCT 2007 the CardiOp-StentOptimizer, a real-time imaging solution designed to provide detection of suboptimal stent deployment or confirm appropriate deployment for cardiovascular procedures.

StentOptimizer performs post deployment analysis for detecting stent underexpansion and incomplete stent apposition. StentOptimizer provides: stent enhancement; automatic edge detection of stent and vessel; immediate post-deployment results - identification of gaps between stent and vessel.

October 25, 2007 - GE Healthcare displayed its SnapShot Pulse technology designed to maintain high computed tomography (CT) image quality while reducing a patient’s radiation exposure by up to 70 percent per scan for Cardiovascular CT, at TCT 2007.

October 25, 2007 - Abiomed Inc. announced for the first time, at TCT 2007, that the Impella 2.5 PROTECT I safety trial for patients with high-risk PCI met all primary and secondary endpoints and showed very low adverse event rates.

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