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Percutaneous cardiovascular procedures 'strikingly better' with radial access
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 10 - In the real-world setting of contemporary clinical cardiology practices, adverse events following percutaneous cardiovascular procedures are substantially reduced by using radial artery access compared with using femoral access, investigators report in the March issue of Heart.
March 9, 2009
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Pie, Rogan-Delft ink agreement
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Imaging firm Pie Medical Imaging and Rogan-Delft have signed a distribution agreement that will integrate Pie's CAAS products into Rogan-Delft's Zillion package.
February 19, 2009
320-detector-row CT cuts dose in triple rule-out exams
By Eric Barnes
Image quality is high and radiation dose is low when the so-called triple rule-out protocol is used with 320-detector-row CT to scan patients with chest pain, according to researchers from Berlin.
February 11, 2009
JAMA study finds wide variation in cardiac CTA dose
By Eric Barnes
Coronary CT angiography (CTA) providers are failing to protect their patients from high radiation dose -- with dose levels varying widely between facilities, according to a new multinational study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
February 2, 2009
Flow reserve testing may improve PCI outcomes
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jan 15 - Adding fractional flow reserve measurements to angiography may improve survival and other outcomes for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents, new research indicates.
January 14, 2009
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Merit adds to product line
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Disposable products developer Merit Medical Systems has added two new devices to its product line and received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its contrast management system.
December 29, 2008
Bioabsorbable coronary stents shrink after implant
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 30 - A novel bioabsorbable everolimus-eluting coronary stent shrinks in size following implant, and the extent of recoil may be influenced by the lesion involved, Dutch and Spanish researchers report in the November 11 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
November 29, 2008
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Medis, TomTec launch cardiac software
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Medis Medical Imaging Systems and TomTec Imaging Systems have launched a joint cardiac imaging and analysis product for angiography and ultrasound.
November 24, 2008
Medtronic gets CE Mark for MRI pacemaker
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Interventional technology firm Medtronic has received the European CE Mark for a pacemaker designed for use in MRI systems.
November 16, 2008
Toshiba teams with Maquet
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems is partnering with surgical table manufacturer Maquet to provide products for Toshiba's Infinix-i line of angiography systems.
October 27, 2008
Cook begins international peripheral stent trial
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Interventional technology firm Cook Medical has completed enrollment in an international clinical trial of its Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent.
September 9, 2008
Warfarin safely continued during coronary angiography
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Sep 9 - The results of a new study suggest that patients receiving long-term warfarin therapy do not need to stop the drug prior to coronary angiography.
September 8, 2008
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