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Medtronic begins Endeavor IV trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical device developer Medtronic said that enrollment has begun in its Endeavor IV clinical trial, the final phase of its Endeavor clinical program to be used in support of a Food and Drug Administration premarket approval (PMA) application.
April 12, 2005
Given gets German reimbursement nod
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Video-capsule manufacturer Given Imaging of Yoqneam, Israel, reported that the central consultation committee for reimbursement issues of Germany's Federal Chamber of Physicians has approved reimbursement for capsule endoscopy for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding following inconclusive upper and lower endoscopy.
April 12, 2005
Heartlab nets CE Mark
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardiac image management firm Heartlab has secured the CE Mark for its entire class of products.
April 12, 2005
Novadaq reports positive results for Spy system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A study presented at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery meeting showed that Novadaq's Spy intraoperative fluorescent imaging system correctly identified 58% more coronary artery bypass grafts with technical problems than transit-time ultrasound flow measurement.
April 11, 2005
Lack of ischemic mitral regurgitation on postop echo doesn't preclude additional problems
By Shalmali Pal
SAN FRANCISCO - When coronary bypass surgery is performed, ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) must be addressed as this complication is associated with poor long-term survival. But the durability of valve repair for IMR is currently under fire, despite its popularity over replacement procedures. Unfortunately, good postoperative echocardiography results cannot guarantee that the patient will not experience IMR, according to surgeons from Canada.
April 11, 2005
SmartPill begins clinical trials
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SmartPill of Buffalo, NY, has reported that 510(k) clinical trials of its SmartPill capsule, a noninvasive ingestible medical device that captures biomedical data from within a patient's GI tract, are set to begin next week at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC.
April 11, 2005
Boston Scientific initiates Syntax trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device manufacturer Boston Scientific said that enrollment has begun in the Syntax clinical trial, which will compare the performance of drug-eluting stents with cardiac surgery in patients with coronary artery disease.
April 11, 2005
Adding SPECT to women's workup improves coronary risk assessment
By Jerry Ingram
Women with an intermediate or high risk of developing coronary heart disease may benefit from SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in addition to the standard exercise tolerance tests, according to research presented at the 2005 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting in Orlando.
April 11, 2005
Z-axis modulation cuts VC dose, keeps image quality high
By Eric Barnes
Screening asymptomatic patients means justifying the radiation dose, and in recent years virtual colonoscopy practitioners have strived to ramp the dose downward, with an eye on finding the dose levels where noise levels and accuracy might begin to suffer. Researchers from Germany found that adding dedicated z-axis modulation could cut the dose, while keeping image quality high.
April 11, 2005
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CT, PET staging may negate need for mediastinoscopy in lung cancer
By Shalmali Pal
SAN FRANCISCO - Assessing lung cancer patients with CT and PET may identify some mediastinal lymph node metastases reliably enough to jettison mediastinoscopy, according to a presentation Monday at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) meeting.
April 10, 2005
VC with contrast finds more extracolonic trouble
By Eric Barnes
Among symptomatic older patients, virtual colonoscopy found more extracolonic abnormalities with IV contrast than without, according to a study presented at the 2005 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna.
April 10, 2005
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GE assists museums with mummy scans
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare said it has provided CT technology to scan six Egyptian mummies from the British Museum that are scheduled to go on display later this month at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA.
April 7, 2005
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