The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) will present the 2019 Gold Medal Award to Jonathon Leipsic, M.D., FSCCT, and Gilbert Raff, M.D., FSCCT, at the SCCT 14th Annual Scientific Meeting, July 11 – 14 in Baltimore. The SCCT Gold Medal Award recognizes outstanding leaders who have made landmark contributions to the field of cardiovascular computed tomography and to the society.

Orchestra BioMed Inc. announced the presentation of two-year clinical data from the European Moderato I study of BackBeat Cardiac Neuromodulation Therapy (“BackBeat CNT”) for hypertension at the EuroPCR Conference, May 21-24 in Paris, France. Prof. Petr Neužil, M.D., Ph.D., CSc., FESC, head of the department of cardiology of Na Homolce Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, presented data which showed a strong safety profile of BackBeat CNT and its ability to immediately, substantially and chronically lower blood pressure in patients with persistent hypertension (office BP > 150 mmHg) despite two or more anti-hypertensive medications and an indication for a pacemaker.

Royal DSM recently announced a collaboration with Strait Access Technologies (SAT), to develop the world’s first durable and cost-effective transcatheter replacement heart valves with polymeric leaflets.

Medis Medical Imaging Systems B.V. has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its QAangio XA 3D technology (QFR). The technology offers a non-invasive imaging technique for the assessment of the functional significance of coronary lesions without the need for a pressure wire, nor adenosine.

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found higher blood pressure and pesticide exposures in children associated with a heightened pesticide spraying period around the Mother’s Day flower harvest. The study, published online in the journal Environmental Research,1 involved boys and girls living near flower crops in Ecuador.

Terumo Medical Corp. is recalling the SoloPath Balloon Expandable TransFemoral System and Re-Collapsible Balloon Access System due to a potential for the tip to dislodge from the outer rim of the sheath. This may result in a loss of the smooth transition from the surface of the tip to the outer surface of the expandable sheath.

Marvin Eng, M.D., structural fellowship director at Henry Ford Health System, and William O'Neill, M.D., director of the Henry Ford Hospital structural heart program, explain the mitral valve repair program at Henry Ford. The hospital performs a large number of transcatheter mitral valve repairs, including MitraClip, and is involved in trials for investigational device technologies.

A discussion with William O’Neill, M.D., director of the Henry Ford structural heart program, Ruth Fisher, MBA, vice president of the program, and Janet Wyman, NP, program manager. Henry Ford Hospital has built a large, high-volume structural heart program that includes use of cutting edge new technologies and devices.

Iodine-based CT contrast with ready for scanning with a Canon Aquilion One 320-slice CT system at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in the Chicago suburbs. It is not clear that contrast caused contract induced nephrapathy (CIN), also referred to as acute kidney injury (AKI) or contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CAAKI). Photo by Dave Fornell

Iodine-based contrast agents used in computed tomography (CT) and catheter-based angiography have been implicated as a cause of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN). This has raised concern in recent years, especially in renally compromised patients, and imagers are looking for ways to reduce the contrast media dose levels they use.
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