Echocardiography News
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1st Successful Heart Tumor Removal Without Open Heart Surgery
EchoPixel has once again contributed to a pioneering procedure at CentraCare – St. Cloud Hospital with the first team to remove a heart tumor without invasive open heart surgery using the novel AlphaVac catheter. Previously CentraCare had been the first to use EchoPixel’s 4D hologram technology to conduct the WATCHMAN implant, which is a one-time, minimally invasive procedure ...
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Five TAVR Patients Successfully Implanted with DurAVR Valve
Anteris reports successfully implanting five TAVR patients during the week of 14 November 2021 in a first-in-human (FIH) study to assess the DurAVR THV system for treating severe aortic stenosis. The study was carried out at the Tbilisi Heart and Vascular Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia. The transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedures for all five patients were successful and without any ...
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HD Medical’s HD Steth Screens Over 50,000 Children for Congenital Heart Defects
In recognition of World Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) Awareness week, HD Medical Inc. today announces it has screened over 50,000 children for CHDs using HD Steth™. These screenings have been conducted at multiple locations in India, helping to save over 35 lives to date. HD Medical plans to expand the screenings to over 500,000 children worldwide. The children diagnosed with CHD were ...
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Think Porthole: Challenges to imaging the heart with ultrasound
There is no doubt that 2-dimensional (2D) ultrasound imaging can be a challenging task to learn. Performing ultrasound requires some imagination. A simple turn of the transducer can change the orientation of anatomy. Therefore, learning anatomy in this way is not always straightforward as with 3-dimensional fixed images. To further complicate matters, the human body presents obstacles at nearly ...
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CardioWise Completes Small Business Innovation and Research Grant from the National Science Foundation
CardioWise, Inc. has completed National Science Foundation (NSF) Phase I and IB Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grants that continued the development and commercialization of a non-invasive analysis method for detection of heart disease. The final report submitted to the NSF in December detailed the research and development milestones that were achieved during the 2013 award period ...
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