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PubMed Articles
Patients with both chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetes mellitus (DM) are at increased risk for thrombotic events compared to those with one abnormality alone. Whether this can be attributed to c...
PURPOSE: This study is aimed at evaluating the safety and efficacy of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for patients with hypervascular painful metastatic spinal tumors refractory to percutaneous...
Percutaneous management of left atrial appendage perforation during device closure.
A 76-year-old male patient was admitted for percutaneous left atrial appendage (LAA) closure because of chronic atrial fibrillation and a history of gastrointestinal bleeding under oral anticoagulatio...
OBJECTIVES: To report the clinical outcomes of single-stenting from distal unprotected left main coronary artery (LMCA) to the left circumflex artery (LCx). BACKGROUND: Percutaneous coronary intervent...
Objective: We compare clinical outcomes among unselected patients undergoing PCI with drug-eluting stents (DES) stratified in categories of treating hospital PCI volume. Background: Previous observati...
BACKGROUND: With the introduction of a new platform, robotic single-site cholecystectomy (RSSC) has been reported as feasible and safe for selected cases. In parallel, the development of real-time nea...
BACKGROUND: Aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) has a recurrence rate of between 12% and 71% without en bloc resection or amputation. There is no percutaneous ABC treatment drug regimen demonstrating consisten...
Role of interventional radiology in diagnosis and management of the painful spine.
The aim of this article is to perform a general review of the different radiological percutaneous procedures used to diagnose and treat the many causes of back pain. These procedures can be merely dia...
Background Cytochrome P450 2C19 (CYP2C19) loss-of-function polymorphisms are more common in Asian populations and have been associated with diminished antiplatelet response to clopidogrel. In this era...
News Articles
St Jude Medical receives approval for Ilumien Optis to treat CAD
St. Jude Medical has received CE Mark approval for its Ilumien Optis Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Optimization System.
Teleflex to Focus on Arrow® Advanced Interventional Radiology Portfolio at EuroPCR
Teleflex Incorporated (NYSE: TFX), a leading global provider of medical devices for critical care and surgery, will showcase its interventional radiology solutions at the European...
OR YEHUDA, Israel, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Valtech Cardio Ltd., a medical device company that develops solutions for mitral valve repair and replacement, announced today that two patients diagno...
SPACE, RF ablation combo safe and effective for lung cancer
(HealthDay)—For unresectable lung tumors, the combination of segmental pulmonary arterial chemoembolization (SPACE) and percutaneous radiofrequency (RF) ablation helps achieve better local tumor pro...
COSIRA trial: Enrollment complete for assessing Neovasc Reducer in refractory angina patients
Neovasc Inc., today announced the completion of patient enrollment in its COSIRA trial designed to further assess the efficacy and safety of the Neovasc Reducer, a novel percutaneous device for the tr...
Nanostim, Inc., a privately-owned developer of miniaturized, leadless cardiac pacemakers (LCP), today announced preliminary results from its LEADLESS study during the late breakin...
Uroplasty highlights results of STEP Study on PTNS treatments for overactive bladder
Uroplasty, Inc., a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products for the treatment of voiding dysfunctions, today highlighted the 3-year results of the...
MINNEAPOLIS, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Uroplasty, Inc. (NASDAQ:UPI), a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products for the treatment of voidi...
Tailored Hydration Works in Cath Lab (CME/CE)
ORLANDO (MedPage Today) -- Using a routinely measured hemodynamic variable to guide hydration in patients undergoing coronary angiography or percutaneous coronary intervention improves clinical outcom...
Only 42 percent of the deaths occurring within 30 days of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) were attributable to complications from the procedure, according to a Cleveland Clinic study publish...
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Companies
Lombard Medical Technologies PLC
Lombard Medical Technologies PLC is a global medical technology company focussed on providing innovative endovascular products which broaden clinicians’ treatment options and opportunities for...
Colibri Heart Valve, LLC is a privately held medical device company committed to the research and development of novel heart valve technologies, including the Companyâs dry,...
InSeal Medical Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel http://www.InSealMedical.com/) develops and manufactures percutaneous vascular closure devices for sealing of puncture site following a treat...
Mitralign is a cardiac device company founded by the Accelerated Technologies (ATI) medical device incubator. The company has developed and is currently testing an innovative, cat...
VertiFlex is a privately held medical device company dedicated to the advancement of minimally invasive and motion preserving technologies for disorders of the spine. Founded in 2...
The SpineAlign device represents the first of many new innovations in the area of minimally invasive percutaneous vertebral body reconstruction and augmentation to be developed by...
Marine Polymer Technologies, Inc.
Marine Polymer Technologies (MPT) is a privately-held medical device company that researches, develops and markets technologies for patient hemostasis and wound healing bas...
BioCardia, Inc., headquartered in San Carlos, CA is a privately-held commercial medical technology company that has developed percutaneous delivery systems for biologics to treat...
Ischemix is a privately-held drug discovery company with a portfolio of small molecule therapeutic compounds. The first of these compounds is targeted to reduce cell death and org...
Clinical Trials
Evaluation of M118 in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (EMINENCE)
The primary objective is to evaluate the safety and feasibility of using M118 as an anticoagulant in the target population of subjects with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing...
Physical Exercise and Coronary Artery Plaque Composition
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of two different physical exercise protocols on changes in coronary artery plaque composition and development of in-stent restenosis in p...
A 2 by 2 factorial, multicenter, prospective, randomized, open-label, blinded endpoint trial. Patients undergoing primary PCI for STEMI will be eligible. Enrolled patients will be randomly...
Comparison of SCS and PMR in Patients With Refractory Angina Pectoris
Randomised trial of Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) and Percutaneous Myocardial Laser Revascularisation (PMR) in patients with Refractory Angina Pectoris. Hypothesis: difference in exercise...
This is a prospective, randomized, multi-center, international trial comparing two reperfusion strategies in elderly (age >= 70 years) patients with acute myocardial infarction: primary p...
The object of the study is to determine whether different doses of SCH 530348, when added to standard medical care in persons undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, will increase t...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a consequence of liver cirrhosis. In early tumour stages, tumour resection or liver transplantation are therapeutic options; later tumour stages may be tr...
Which Therapy for Acute Heart Attacks? (The WEST Study)
In the setting of acute myocardial infarction (heart attacks), the principle objective of the WEST Study is to compare the impact on clinical outcomes of 3 different treatment strategies....
Seocalcitol Versus Placebo in the Adjuvant Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
To evaluate the efficacy of Seocalcitol in prolonging time to relapse following intended curative resection or percutaneous ablative treatment, i.e. percutaneous ethanol injection(s), perc...
The primary purpose of this study is to assess the safety and effectiveness of TNFerade™ Biologic when administered concurrently with 5-FU and radiation therapy as first-line treatment o...
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Sphincterotomy, Transhepatic
Surgery of the smooth muscle sphincter of the hepatopancreatic ampulla to relieve blocked biliary or pancreatic ducts.
Phonophoresis
Use of ultrasound to increase the percutaneous adsorption of drugs.
Radiography, Interventional
Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that are invasive or surgical in nature, and require the expertise of a specially trained radiologist. In general, they are more invasive than diagnostic imaging but less invasive than major surgery. They often involve catheterization, fluoroscopy, or computed tomography. Some examples include percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography, percutaneous transthoracic biopsy, balloon angioplasty, and arterial embolization.
Angioplasty, Transluminal, Percutaneous Coronary
Dilatation of an occluded coronary artery (or arteries) by means of a balloon catheter to restore myocardial blood supply.
Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic
Incision of Oddi's sphincter or Vater's ampulla performed by inserting a sphincterotome through an endoscope (DUODENOSCOPE) often following retrograde cholangiography (CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE). Endoscopic treatment by sphincterotomy is the preferred method of treatment for patients with retained or recurrent bile duct stones post-cholecystectomy, and for poor-surgical-risk patients that have the gallbladder still present.
