Cardiac Imaging
A pacemaker system enables patients to receive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans with a limited exclusion zone.
Biotronik (Berlin, Germany), a manufacturer of cardiovascular medical devices, reported that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given their approval for its Entovis pacemaker system with ProMRI technology. FDA approval includes both single chamber (SR-T) and dual-chamber (DR-T) Entovis pacemakers when implanted with Setrox pacing leads.
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Cardiac Imaging News
FDA Approves Pacemaker with MRI Scanning Abilities…
A pacemaker system enables patients to receive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans with a limited exclusion zone.
Biotronik (Berlin, Germany), a manufacturer of cardiovascular medical devices, reported that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given their approval for its Entovis pacemaker system with ProMRI technology. FDA approval includes both single chamber (SR-T) and dual-chamber (DR-T) Entovis pacemakers when implanted with Setrox pacing leads.
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Clot-busting Treatment and New MRI Analysis Determine …
Researchers from the John Hopkins University have reported that they have recently developed a predictive method that can determine, with 95 percent accuracy, which stroke victims will serve to benefit from intravenous clot-busting drugs and which
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Detecting Risk for Heart Attack, Stroke Heightened by …
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have recently developed an ultrasound device that could help identify arterial plaque that is at high risk of breaking off and causing a heart
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Significant Reduction in use of Cardiac Imaging …
According to a study recently published in the journal JAMA, there has been a steppe decrease since 2006 in the use of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI; an imaging procedure used to determine areas of the heart with decreased blood flow),
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Ultrasound Misses Numerous Heart Defects in Fetuses…
Based on research conducted at Linköping University in Sweden, one reason why malformations are not detected is obesity in the expectant mother. Moreover, six out of ten grave heart defects in fetuses go unnoticed in the ultrasound scans
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Heart Scans Only Useful in Prescribing Statins under …
According to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco, as long as low-cost statins, which lower cholesterol, are readily available and patients don't mind taking them, it doesn't make sense to perform a heart scan to measure how much plaque
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CT Scans Show Not to Interfere with Heart Rhythm …
Back when US health administrators issued an advisory in 2008 warning that computed tomography (CT) imaging might interfere with pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, the medical community needed more evidence to support the health
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Carotid Artery MRI Helps Predict Possibility of …
Based on a new study published online in the journal Radiology, noninvasive imaging of carotid artery plaque with MRI can precisely predict future cardiovascular events like strokes and heart attacks in people without a history of cardiovascular
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256-Slice Scanner Enables Bird’s Eye View…
With bird's eye imaging, cardiologists see the earliest signs of heart disease or existing heart disease not diagnosed with other testing modalities.
"With one heartbeat, within one second, we can get an entire 3-D image of the heart that
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Novel Imaging Method Can Diagnose Common Heart …
A new imaging technique used for measuring blood flow in the heart and vessels can diagnose a common congenital heart abnormality, bicuspid aortic valve, and could very well lead to better prediction of any future complications.
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Single Chip Device Offers Real-time 3D Images inside …
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have creating the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide insightful, real-time, three-dimensional (3D) imaging from inside the heart, coronary arteries, and peripheral blood
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Cardiac Tests Result in More Tests, With Little Answers…
A recent study analysis of more than 220 US hospitals demonstrates wide variation in the use of noninvasive imaging in patients admitted to the emergency department with chest pain. Regardless of the variation, hospitals with high rates of imaging
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PICSO® Impulse System to treat severe heart attack …
Miracor Medical Systems GmbH recently announced that it has finalized a four month follow-up of patients enrolled in its "Prepare RAMSES" clinical trial of its PICSO® (Pressure-controlled Intermittent Coronary Sinus Occlusion) System
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