Vascular Surgery
Vascular Surgery
Vascular Surgery
Blood Flow Measurement Using Tiny LED Catheter
Measuring blood flow is important during a variety of surgical procedures, as well as in intensive care settings. Typically, this is performed intermittently, so there's not a lot of temporal detail in the readings. Now, a team of researchers...
Vascular Surgery
Radiation-Free Guidance for Vascular Catheters Using Smart Fiber Optics
While modern catheters can reach into various parts of the body, navigating there remains a major challenge. Fluoroscopes that emit X-rays are used to constantly keep track of the catheter location, but they emit ionizing radiation and require...
Vascular Surgery
Artis icono Angiography Suite Now Includes Virtual Patients to Practice On
Siemens Healthineers has partnered with Mentice, a Swedish company that specializes in simulation solutions for endovascular therapies, to integrate the Artis icono angiography system with the VIST Virtual Patient offering. Many of today's...
Vascular Surgery
Mimics Enlight Cardiovascular Planning Software Gets FDA Clearance
Materialise, a 3D printing company with a focus on patient-specific parts, has received FDA clearance for its Mimics Enlight cardiovascular planning software suite. The product's initial application will be in planning complex transcatheter...
Vascular Surgery
Project Moray Developing Robotic Intracardiac Catheter for Complex Interventions
Catheter-based surgical interventions are now routine, so much so that navigating to the heart from an access site in the groin is considered ho-hum. Once there, though, getting a catheter tip to the exact spot within the heart that requires...
Vascular Surgery
Patches Made of Heart Tissue Going to Clinical Trials
Stem cell therapies to heal damaged hearts have proven to be lacking so far, probably because simply injecting new cells into afflicted regions isn't enough. Researchers from Imperial College London have now created patches made of cardiac...
Vascular Surgery
IMPEDE-FX Embolization Plug Cleared in U.S. for Peripheral Arteries
Shape Memory Medical, a company out of Santa Clara, California, won FDA clearance for its IMPEDE-FX Embolization Plug. The new device is to be used as an adjunct to the firm's IMPEDE Embolization Plug, which is already FDA cleared. The two...
Vascular Surgery
Bioabsorbable Wound Dressing with Nanoscale Chitosan to Rapidly Stop Bleeding
Chitosan is a sugar compound derived from the exoskeletons of shrimp, crab, and other shellfish. It is used extensively in medicine, including in dressings, because of its well known hemostatic properties. These properties work at the nanoscale,...
Vascular Surgery
Philips Unveils IntraSight Multi-Modality Imaging Platform
For years, catheter-based minimally invasive procedures have depended on X-ray imaging to guide physicians toward the treatment site. New tools, including intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and fractional flow reserve (FFR), which measures blood...
Vascular Surgery
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