The upcoming Society of Thoracic Surgeons annual meeting in San Diego is scheduled to feature multiple big-name speakers. The four-day event runs Jan. 28-31, 2027.
CCTA offers clinicians an opportunity to make patient care more efficient. However, interventionalists need to make sure they understand how to properly interpret coronary CT data.
The Freesolve Resorbable Magnesium Scaffold previously received the same designation for below-the-knee interventions. This update covers minimally invasive coronary procedures.
Clinicians have been using this device to perform M-TEER for years. After this latest announcement, it is now officially approved for both mitral valve repair and tricuspid valve repair.
Traditionally, the interventional cardiologist first visualizes the coronary anatomy in detail when contrast is injected in the catheterization laboratory. For many patients, however, that anatomy has already been captured, often in considerable detail, by coronary CT angiography (CCTA) performed earlier in the clinical pathway. This article considers how this dataset can be used to plan the procedure, an approach referred to as CT-guided PCI.
