According to a new study, small changes in quality improvement procedures enabled clinicians to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to diagnose stroke patients before giving acute treatment, within 60 minutes of arrival. MRI scans provide detailed images but take longer to complete than computed tomography (CT) scans, which are commonly used in most centers.

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heart on a chip, organs on a chip
heart on a chip, organs on a chip
heart on a chip, organs on a chip

The cost of bringing innovative new cardiovascular technology to the U.S. market today is staggering, numbering in the tens of millions up to $1 billion. Many in the medical device and drug industries see this as a major barrier to developing new therapies. The majority of this cost is in the preclinical animal testing stage and the human clinical trials required to gain regulatory clearance. New technologies may very soon offer a way to greatly decrease these costs. In addition, these technologies may be able to identify which drugs or device therapies will be effective in humans before spending millions in potentially dead-end research.

A study in the May issue of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging examines the ability of the EchoInsight software to achieve quantitative assessment of the right ventricle (RV). The study, “Semi-automated Echocardiographic Quantification of Right Ventricular Size and Function," was published by Diego Medvedofsky, Karima Addetia, Roberto Lang, Victor Mor-Avi, et al.

Holographic Optical Technologies has made its Voxgram hologram technology available to the consumer market through its just-launched Kickstarter campaign.

Significantly fewer renal and cardiac events are associated with angioplasty procedures using isosmolar contrast medium (IOCM) agent Visipaque (iodixanol) than those using low-osmolar contrast media (LOCM), according to new data presented at EuroPCR 2015.

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