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Peripheral Arterial Disease
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Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) is a build-up of plaque within the arteries causing a disruption in blood flow. Although lifestyle changes and medications can be effective in fighting PAD, cath lab procedures are often necessary, not only to detect, but also to treat PAD. |
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Laser Atherectomy in Peripheral Arterial Disease
Can you discuss how laser atherectomy has evolved and overcome some of its initial challenges? Laser technology, as well as the catheter design, has evolved over a period of years to make the device safer and more effective. Early laser systems actually utilized a hot tip laser, which heated the tip of the catheter and also used a variety of wavelengths. Initial laser systems were not very successful. They caused damage to the arterial wall and were unable to penetrate especially difficult tissue. The early use of excimer laser was in late 1980s, when the catheter design was stiff and caused more perforation.
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Clinical and Industry News
Clinical and Industry News Industry News: Clinical and Industry News - Radi Medical Systems Announces 2006 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates for Myocardial Fractional Flow Reserve (FFRmyo) Radi Medical Systems, Inc. announced that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved the proposed 2006 Medicare hospital outpatient payment classifications and rates. Patient Safety Systems While there has been some improvement in patient safety systems at hospitals, progress...
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The COURAGE Trial: A Mid-Course Correction
Dr. Boden is the Principal Investigator of the COURAGE Trial, which found that in chronic stable angina patients, optimal medical therapy was equivalent to PCI plus optimal medical therapy.
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Clinical and Industry News
The STENT (Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of New Therapies) registry included follow-up on 5,566 patients at eight coronary centers in the United States who received either a Taxus stent system or a Cypher stent system, including 1,680 diabetic patients, nearly 500 of whom were insulin-treated diabetics. Despite the higher complexity of the Taxus patients, the Taxus stent system demonstrated excellent outcomes in MACE when compared to the Cypher stent system in diabetic patients overall ...
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Crossing Chronic Total Occlusions
Cath Lab Digest talks with? Raj Dave, MD, Director, Endovascular Medicine, Pinnacle Health/Harrisburg Hospital, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Jeffrey W. Moses, MD, Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC); Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy (CIVT) at CUMC; Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/CUMC New York, New York
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New Cardiovascular Horizons
New Cardiovascular Horizons is being held November 1-4, 2006, in New Orleans.
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News from ISET: International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy
News from ISET: International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy Industry News: News from ISET: International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy - Held January 16-20, 2005, Miami Beach, Florida. Dr. Veith reported on 44 patients with ruptured aortic aneurysms treated at Montefiore Medical Center, as well as 476 patients treated worldwide. The study included 20 patients who received absorbable metal stents to treat severely blocked arteries below the knee.
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Clinical and Industry News
Heart Disease Risk Factors Rooted in Childhood According to two new studies, lifestyle factors that increase the risk of heart disease in adults begin to take hold in childhood, and possibly even prior to birth. Discovered at Cleveland Clinic Exists in 1?2% of U.S. Heart Patients In November 2003, Cleveland Clinic researchers announced the discovery of the first gene confirmed as a cause of coronary heart disease in humans. For the latest study, researchers reviewed the genetic data of 207 ...
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News from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Meeting (TCT): Part II
Held September 27?October 1, 2004, in Washington, D.C.
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May 2004 (Part II)
Hormone May Cut Heart Attack Risk Men with high levels of a hormone secreted by fat cells run a lower risk of a heart attack, according to a study that could lead to new ways to prevent or treat heart disease. Heart Attack Hospital Stays Decline, Study Finds Patients recovering from severe heart attacks in the United States are kept in hospitals less than a week, compared to stays of more than six weeks in the 1950s, researchers said. Longer duration of diabetes appeared to increase the ...
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