GE Healthcare Medical Diagnostics’ VISIPAQUE is reportedly the only isosmolar contrast medium (IOCM) available in the U.S. With an osmolality equal to that of blood, VISIPAQUE was designed for patient safety and comfort and is also formulated with sodium and calcium in a ratio equivalent to blood.

Guerbet’s flagship X-ray contrast agent, Oxilan (ioxilan) injection, is a contrast agent that is a nonionic, low-viscous and low-osmolar monomer.
The 2007 Frost & Sullivan Product Quality Leadership Award is presented to Guerbet for the recognized quality of its contrast media products in the North American Contrast Media Market.
Although there are possible side effects that can arise following injection of X-ray contrast media, Oxilan has had reportedly favorable results with usage feedback, indicating it is a safe product.

GE Healthcare has released the latest version of Centricity Enterprise, an intelligent and integrated software suite of clinical and financial applications that is designed to improve patient care and increase collaboration between clinicians, providing a better overall healthcare environment.

Siemens Medical Solutions Ultrasound Division’s syngo Arterial Health Package (AHP) application for cardiovascular risk assessment provides semi-automated quantification tools for users that help to assess the cardiovascular risk potential of patients using the concept of “vascular age.”

The syngo AHP is available on the ACUSON Sequoia C512 echocardiography platform and the new ACUSON X300 all-purpose ultrasound system.

Cordis Endovascular announced, at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery, the worldwide launch of the Cordis AVIATOR Plus Balloon Dilatation Catheter for use in angioplasty procedures for patients with carotid and/or renal artery blockages.

St. Jude Medical Inc. announced that the FDA cleared the ACross Transseptal Access System, a device designed to improve control and simplify the procedure physicians use to access the left atrium during complex cardiac procedures such as atrial fibrillation ablation.

September 5, 2007 - The National Institutes of Health has awarded its $5 million Bioengineering Research Partnership award to researchers who aim to make open-heart surgery a minimally invasive procedure by producing instruments that are as minimally invasive as catheters, but which provide the precision and control of open-heart surgery.

September 5, 2007 - Results from a study on acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema, or "fluid on the lung," presented at the ESC Congress 2007, in Vienna, Austria, demonstrated that irrespective of the method of administration, noninvasive ventilation helps patients to recover more quickly in the first few hours of their illness, but that this does not improve their subsequent chances of survival.

September 5, 2007 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that it has received CE Mark approval for European commercial sales of its Edwards SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve technology with the RetroFlex transfemoral delivery system.

September 5, 2007 - Clinical investigators at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2007 (ESC Congress 2007) reported that the CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent continued to provide clinical benefits compared to a bare metal stent in the E-SIRIUS Trial out to five years of follow-up with no differences in safety.

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