Interventional Cardiology

This cardiac subspecialty uses minimally invasive, catheter-based technologies in a cath lab to diagnose and treat coronary artery disease (CAD). The main focus in on percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) to revascularize patients with CAD that is causing blockages resulting in ischemia or myocardial infarction. PCI mainly consists of angioplasty and implanting stents. Interventional cardiology has greatly expanded in scope over recent years to include a number of transcatheter structural heart interventions.

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Updated ACC registry data provides latest PCI trends

Recently, the ACC released updated data from CathPCI, which showed that more than 90 percent of PCI-capable hospitals in the U.S. used the registry. Of those sites, 70 percent submit data for all diagnostic catheterization and PCI procedures.

Heart surgeon first to perform sutureless heart surgery in Washington state

Hassan Tehrani, MD, a Deaconess Hospital surgeon in Spokane, Washington, has become the first in the state to perform a heart valve replacement surgery using a less invasive, sutureless procedure, reports KomoNews.com.

FDA clears Medtronic products for diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures, PCIs

The FDA cleared Medtronic’s DxTerity diagnostic angiography catheter line and several of the company’s transradial-specific products, all of which are used in diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures and PCIs.

HIV-infected patients may be more likely to have type 2 MIs

More than half of MIs among HIV-infected patients were classified as type 2 MIs that occurred in the setting of a mismatch between oxygen demand and supply, according to a longitudinal study.

Exela Pharma Sciences recalls ibuprofen lysine injection vials

Exela Pharma Sciences voluntarily recalled a lot of its ibuprofen lysine injection vials after discovering some of the vials contained particulate matter.

Tampa hospital performs 100th transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement

St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida, performed its 100th non-invasive heart surgery Feb. 6 in which it gave a patient a transcatheter pulmonary valve.

Cardiologist in Virginia faces misdemeanor for allegedly hitting female nursing director

Zia Roshandel, MD, a cardiologist from Virginia, was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery after he allegedly hit a female nursing director on her shoulder, the Culpeper Star-Exponent reports.

Heart transplant recipient likes that her new heart beats silently

Lisa Salberg, a 48-year-old women in Rockaway Township, New Jersey, is celebrating having a healthy heart after undergoing an eight-hour heart transplant at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark.

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