The doctor received two years’ probation for assaulting and threatening to kill his wife. His wife also sued him over this abuse, with the courts ruling that she was owed more than $600,000.
Researchers examined 10-year follow-up data from approximately 400 EVAR patients, sharing their findings at the 2023 Charing Cross Symposium in London.
Janet Wei, MD, associate medical director of the Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, and co-director of the stress echocardiography lab at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, explains the current information on the INOCA and MINOCA.
Laser speckle imaging captures details of blood vessels in a beating donor transplant heart outside the body for viability evaluation. Image from Plyer et al., doi 10.1117/1.JBO.28.4.046007
A new laser imaging technology may be able to determine which donor hearts are viable for transplant and which will result in poor outcomes, without the need for coronary angiography or use of contrast agents that can damage an explanted heart.
Example of interventional echocardiography TEE imaging superimposed on live fluoro during a transseptal puncture for a MitraClip procedure.
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) released a new guideline document that outlines uniform training standards for interventional sonographers guiding structural heart procedures.
Certain uses of the CentriMag acute circulatory support system were previously limited to six hours, but the FDA has now cleared long-term treatment so that clinicians have more time to provide high-quality care.
Scott Huennekens, who has more than 25 years of experience in the medical device industry, is the second addition Elucid has made to its board of directors in the last six months.
More than 100 U.S. medical societies—including the ACC, ASNC and others—have united in support of a new bill that would make a long-term impact on Medicare payments.
