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TherOx Receives FDA Approval for First Heart Attack Treatment Since PCI to Reduce Infarct Size

06/07/2019

TherOx, Inc., a privately held medical device company focused on improving treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted premarket approval for its SuperSaturated Oxygen...

TherOx, Inc., a privately held...

06/07/2019

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Case Report

Lower Extremity Venoplasty With the Shockwave Lithotripsy Balloon

03/05/2019

Robert Attaran¹, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI, Mahmoud Abdelghany², MD, Carlos Mena-Hurtado³, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Robert Attaran1, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RPV...

To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of the use of the Shockwave lithoplasty balloon in a vein, in the treatment of post-thrombotic stenosis.

To our knowledge, this is the...

03/05/2019

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Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Intervention and the Use of Three-Dimensional Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE)

02/28/2019

Cath Lab Digest talks with D. Scott Lim, MD, Medical Director, University of Virginia Advanced Cardiac Valve Center; Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics, Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Cath Lab Digest talks with D. Scott L...

Standard ICE probes only offer a single plane of imaging and full visualization of the three leaflets of the tricuspid valve requires imaging from multiple planes.

Standard ICE probes only offer a...

02/28/2019

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Case Study

Shockwave Intravascular Lithotripsy to Unprotected Left Main Stem: Pushing the Boundaries of Calcified Plaque Intervention

02/01/2019

Bernard Wong, MBChB, Aleksandar Cicovic, MBChB, Guy Armstrong, MBChB, Seif El-Jack, MBBS, Department of Cardiology, Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand

Bernard Wong, MBChB, Aleksandar Cicov...

While traditional calcium modification devices like rotational atherectomy may have a role in treating concentric calcium, their role in eccentric calcium is unclear. Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) (Shockwave Medical) is a newly available...

While traditional calcium...

02/01/2019

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