Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology

First quad active-fixation left heart lead designed for precise placement and stability

Newly cleared diagnostic test could help identify heart attacks several hours sooner than standard troponin tests and help improve diagnosis in women

Device features Gore Active Control System for controlled, two-stage deployment

Essential Medical Inc. received FDA clearance for the Manta Vascular Closure Device, designed to close large femoral artery punctures from devices including the Impella heart pump, endovascular stent grafts and transcatheter valves.

Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) maintains more than 50 vendor product comparison charts based on questionnaires, with side-by-side specifications and links to vendor websites.

Northside Hospital, Tampa Bay Heart Institute, studied transradial versus transfemoral artery access in STEMI patients at a community hospital. The study found transradial access noninferior and helped lower door-to-balloon times.

Results from the SWISS-APERO Trial reported at TCT 2021 and published simultaneously in Circulation

AJR reports that free-breathing cine-DL may provide reliable LVEF measurements for patients with IHD who cannot repeatedly hold their breath. Compared with standard breath-hold cine, it showed very little measurement bias and better subjective quality.

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