The addition of IVUS to a fixed-dose catheter thrombolysis regimen failed to facilitate thrombus resolution in patients with acute iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis in the BERNUTIFUL trial. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although initially described in the early 1970s, technological advancements during the past 2 decades have ...

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Infraredx, Inc., a pioneer in intravascular imaging for mapping coronary artery disease, today announced the Makoto™ Intravascular Imaging System, and accompanying ...

-Next generation intravascular ultrasound catheter improves image quality and deliverability NATICK, Mass. -- The Boston Scientific Corporation has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance ...

Biomedical engineers have combined intravascular ultrasound with fluorescence lifetime imaging in a single catheter probe that can image the tiny arteries of a living heart. The new catheter can ...

May 14, 2008 (Barcelona, Spain) - Proponents of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) say it is an essential tool in the cath lab for understanding lesion morphology, deploying drug-eluting stents (DES), ...

SAN DIEGO, CA—IVUS-guided implantation of drug-eluting stents results in lower rates of target vessel failure (TVF) by 1 year compared to angiography-guided procedures, according to results from a new ...

Volcano Corp. has announced it has received FDA clearance for its new intravascular ultrasound catheter, according to a news release. The Visions PV .035 digital IVUS catheter is designed to image ...

"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 ...

The Eagle Eye Platinum ST digital IVUS catheter offers a 2.5 mm tip-to-imaging distance designed to assess more of the vessel than standard catheters by providing a closer visualization of highly ...