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Stent Accusations: The U.S. Senate Tries to Drum Up COURAGE
Monday’s 172-page Senate Finance Committee Staff Report on the overuse of coronary stents by Dr. Mark Midei at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Maryland has been all over the news — over 300 articles to date,...
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Fractional Flow Reserve: A “How-To” Guide for Cardiologists
I’ve written a lot about Fractional Flow Reserve, or FFR, in the past — and the fact that it’s a simple tool that can be used during an angiogram to assess the actual obstruction to the volume of blood...
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iFR: A New Way to Judge Stents and Angioplasty for Coronary Blockages?
For several years now, I’ve been advocating for expanded use of functional measurement, otherwise known as Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR), as a way of determining whether or not a blocked artery is...
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George W. Bush Gets Angioplasty and Stent – Was It Necessary?
Former President George W. Bush received an angioplasty and stent this morning at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. The stent was recommended by Bush’s doctors to open a blockage in one of his...
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50 Years Ago Today Charles Dotter Invented Angioplasty
Charles Dotter. MD It was 50 years ago today that Dr. Charles T. Dotter, a radiologist in Portland, Oregon, performed the first angioplasty. But it wasn’t in the heart; it was in the leg. An...
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FFR and iFR: Roadmapping Your Heart, “With Traffic”
The coronary angiogram is often referred to as a road map of the heart. As such, it serves the cardiologist and cardiac surgeon well. It shows where the coronary arteries are, how they intersect, the...
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Plavix After Stents: How Long?
Dr. Eric Topol I recently interviewed Dr. Eric Topol for Angioplasty.Org about current efforts to determine the optimal duration of dual antiplatelet therapy (a.k.a. DAPT or clopidogrel plus aspirin)...
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Philips Buys Volcano: It’s About Money, Technology, and History
Rumors and theories about an acquisition of Volcano Corporation (NASDAQ: VOLC) had been circulating for quite some time: months, years even. The company seemed an obvious choice: it has an advanced...
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Consumer Reports Overstates Cardiac CT Radiation Dose
Consumer Reports regularly publishes health information to aid the consumer/patient in making decisions. And that’s a good thing. But also important is having the most current information, which their...
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iFR and iFR Scout to be Featured in Live Case from Hammersmith
Dr. Justin Davies discusses value of using physiology-guided PCI If you’ve been wondering what iFR (Instant wave-Free Ratio) is, how it works, how it compares to FFR (Fractional Flow Reserve) and, most...
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Happy 100th Anniversary to the RSNA
Mason Sones in a Philips cath lab of the 50’s This week the Radiological Society of North America, a.k.a. RSNA, is holding its annual meeting in Chicago. RSNA is an international society of...
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AimRADIAL Masterclass V + FFR Workshop in Budapest
On September 22-23, 2016, the 5th Advanced International Masterclass on the Transradial Approach will be held in Budapest, Hungary. And this year, AimRADIAL will be preceded on September 21 by a...
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Post-Dilatation Stent Sizes
click for hi-res PDF of chart For the interventionalist, proper sizing of coronary stents is critical. While imaging via angiography has been the standard for years, newer intravascular imaging...
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