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.

September 4, 2007- New recommendations released today in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography further support the role of stress echo in accurately identifying coronary artery disease (CAD), determining prognosis of patients with known or suspected CAD, in addition to providing recommendations for optimizing imaging.

September 4, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare demonstrated at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2007 its new IMPAX Cardiovascular (CV) Suite, a system that integrates multi-lingual, multimodality image and reporting capabilities and provides access to a consolidated view of all cross-modality cardiology and radiology images within a single review station.

September 4, 2007 – At the European Society of Cardiology’s (ESC) annual congress, Royal Philips Electronics demonstrated its HeartStart MRx Monitor/Defibrillator, which enables paramedics to transmit patient data from the ambulance to the hospital’s emergency department so that clinicians can use the ECG data to begin assessing what treatment the incoming patient will need.

September 4, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions expanded its portfolio of ultrasound applications with the syngo Arterial Health Package (AHP) that calculates cardiovascular risks by measuring the carotid intima media thickness and determining the so-called vascular age, the relative age of the vessel.

Together with other factors, such as cholesterol values and blood pressure, the physician can use the results of syngo AHP to better assess a patient's myocardial or stroke-related risk and establish an individual prevention and treatment plan.

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