Interventional: Page 84

Medtronic to combine into two groups
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology firm Medtronic will consolidate its business into two operating groups, effective immediately.
August 31, 2009
Abbott takes Xience Prime stent overseas
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Abbott Laboratories has launched its Xience Prime drug-eluting coronary stent system in Europe and in select countries in Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
August 30, 2009
Negative CCTA clears chest pain patients for 3 years, inexpensively
By Eric Barnes
A new study has found that chest pain patients without significant stenoses at coronary CT angiography (CCTA) had no cardiac events, deaths, or interventions within three years of being scanned.
August 25, 2009
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Siemens signs deal with Volcano
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has inked a nonexclusive global resale agreement to resell intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) developer Volcano's s5i IVUS/fractional flow reserve systems and accessories.
August 24, 2009
Pulmonary CTA finds more than pulmonary embolism in children
By Cynthia E. Keen
Despite recent concerns over the use of CT in children, the modality is a good tool for diagnosing pediatric patients with clinical suspicions of pulmonary embolism (PE), according to an article in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
August 24, 2009
Image Gently campaign expands to interventional radiology
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging is expanding the scope of its Image Gently campaign to include interventional radiology. The organization launched a global campaign this week to increase awareness of the need to keep radiation dose as low as possible when performing interventional radiology procedures on children.
August 23, 2009
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Radiation dose and cancer risk in pediatric CTA exams
By Cynthia E. Keen
When it's clinically necessary to evaluate the coronary arteries of a child, the quality and detail of images produced by electrocardiogram-gated coronary CT angiography (CTA) are the best that can be created by an imaging modality. But is the image clarity worth the radiation dose?
August 20, 2009
Xograph completes Ziehm install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.K. radiology products supplier Xograph Healthcare of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, recently delivered a Ziehm Vision mobile C-arm image intensifier to the Runnymede Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey.
August 18, 2009
Coronary CTA beats calcium scoring for short-term prognosis
By Eric Barnes
Coronary CT angiography (CTA) outperforms calcium scoring for predicting short-term outcomes, say Michigan researchers. Three months after the scans, coronary CTA was head and shoulders above calcium and other risk factors as a prognosticator of major adverse cardiac events.
August 13, 2009
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Invivo debuts MR prostate offerings
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MR technology provider Invivo has introduced an MR prostate package for analysis, planning, and interventional biopsy.
August 10, 2009
Some stenoses go undiagnosed with 64-slice CCTA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Anatomic discordance and, in some cases, the reader's failure to accurately quantify intermediate stenosis, results in limited per-segment sensitivity for 64-detector-row coronary CT angiography (CCTA), concludes a new study in the August issue of Radiology.
August 9, 2009
Stereotaxis posts Q2 results, taps new CFO
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image-guided interventional surgery firm Stereotaxis posted record revenue for its second quarter.
August 6, 2009
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