39th Panhellenic Congress of Cardiology

May 3, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the indication for the Medtronic In.Pact Admiral Paclitaxel-coated Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty Balloon Catheter to include lesions up to 360 mm in length. 

This device is indicated for percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, after appropriate vessel preparation, of de novo, restenotic, or in-stent restenotic lesions with lengths up to 360 mm in superficial femoral or popliteal arteries with reference vessel diameters of 4-7 mm.

May 2, 2018 — Conavi Medical Inc. has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Novasight Hybrid System. The system enables simultaneous imaging of coronary arteries with both intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Select adult patients born with a single functioning ventricle, and who have undergone a surgical operation called the ‘Fontan procedure’ during childhood, are being enrolled in a new global-first clinical trial. The trial, led by a multi-disciplinary team of heart and lung physicians, will examine the effects of a portable, non-invasive medical device never before tested on patients with this cardiac condition.

May 2, 2018 – The Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) announced that Charles E. Kahn Jr., M.D., M.S., will become editor of the new online journal, Radiology: Artificial Intelligence.

This is a 360 degree view inside the back of the Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Mobile Stroke Unit ambulance in the western suburbs of Chicago. It has a built in Siemens Somatom Scope 16-slice CT system. A door opens in the back to expose a Mini CT control room, and the door acts as radiation shielding. The unit gets called out to about 10 cases a week and offers immediate imaging where the patient is located. The CT scan can be read by a radiologist remotely via wireless image transmission to the Northwestern Medicine PACS.

James K. Min, M.D., FSCCT, has been selected for a five-year term as the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (JCCT). He in turn has named Todd C. Villines, M.D., FSCCT, as executive editor along with Gudrun Feuchtner, M.D.

Cerebrovascular imaging analysis company iSchemaView received final clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Rapid CTA, the company’s 3-D imaging solution for computed tomography angiography. Rapid CTA is the newest addition to iSchemaView’s neuroimaging platform — including Rapid CTP and Rapid MRI — which is designed to provide physicians with fast, fully-automated and easy-to-interpret imaging that facilitates clinical decision making around cerebrovascular disease, such as stroke.

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