When IVUS did not outperform angiography for guiding percutaneous interventions in two trials, the results offered more questions than answers.
"Nowadays it takes longer time to order a caffe latte at the nearby Starbucks than to get a cardiac CT" --Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD, Stanford University Medical Center (Stanford, California) The ...
Enrolling 3,349 patients, the IVUS sub-study is part of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's (CRF) ADAPT-DES study (Assessment of Dual AntiPlatelet Therapy with Drug-Eluting Stents), a prospective ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Intravascular imaging-guided PCI was tied to better vessel-related and clinical outcomes compared with ...
For the first time, intravascular imaging-guided coronary stenting was associated with better survival and reduced myocardial infarction (MI) in a meta-analysis powered to detect these benefits ...
Volcano Corporation VOLC, a leading developer and manufacturer of precision guided tools designed to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of coronary and peripheral vascular disease, today announced ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Among patients with complex coronary lesions, guiding PCI with either optical coherence tomography or intravascular ultrasound appears to yield similar results, according to a ...
TCT 1095: Graded Coronary Non Compliant Balloon Atrial Septostomy Technique Rescue Severe Refractory Pulmonary Hypertension in Patient With Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Recurrent Pulmonary Emboli ...
Using intravascular imaging (IVI) to guide stent implantation during complex stenting procedures is safer and more effective for patients with severely calcified coronary artery disease than ...