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Cath lab managers, administrators, and people looking at the overheads should be aware of this change because it is going to alter the landscape. If you are doing a complex case using multiple devices, there is no longer the potential for a...

"Having 40 extra pulses allows us to treat lesions that in the past might have been too diffuse or too long for single-catheter IVL use, and we also can use the extra pulses in the C2+ to treat lesions in more than one vessel," says Dr....

CLD talks with Ziad A. Ali, MD, DPhil about the use of the Shockwave C2+ catheter at St. Francis Heart Center.

Since we know that inadequate lesion preparation may lead to higher rates of in-stent restenosis and stent thrombosis, it follows that intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) could help lower suboptimal PCI rates in both men and women.

Stephan H. Heo, MD, FACC

With the use of IVL, we are now at a point where the only cases that we have to either transfer or stage are non-crossable lesions: cases where you can get a wire but not a balloon across, and these are fairly rare.