Tag: coronary artery disease

Latest-generation DCBs “change thinking” on treatment of coronary artery disease

 Interventional cardiologists need to have a range of approaches and devices in their toolbox to t...
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Postmenopausal women with hardened arteries at higher risk of heart attacks than men

Postmenopausal women with clogged arteries are at higher risk of heart attacks than men of simil...

Machine learning enables “clinically important” characterisation of coronary artery disease

Using machine learning and clinical data from electronic health records, researchers have constructe...

Ninety-day readmission and mortality found to be higher among Black patients following PCI

A retrospective analysis of data collected from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascula...

Soundbite Medical enters into a license agreement with VFLO Medical to bring its products to Chinese region

Soundbite Medical Solutions announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with ...

Medtronic announces co-promotion agreement with CathWorks, with path toward acquisition

Medtronic today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with CathWorks, a pr...

Machine learning predicts 10-year risk of death in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease 

The likelihood of patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease dying within 10 years, ca...

Positive NICE recommendation for Xarelto to prevent atherothrombotic events in CAD and PAD patients

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published the final appraisal deter...

New JACC publication reinforces valve of a coronary CTA + HeartFlow Analysis-guided pathway for diagnosing heart disease

HeartFlow has announced the publication of the PACIFIC substudy showing that their FFRct Analysi...

AMA issues unique Category III Current Procedural Terminology codes for HeartFlow FFRct

The American Medical Association (AMA) has issued a set of new Category III Current Procedural T...

First German order for Acarix’ CADScore system

A private cardiology clinic in Berlin, Germany, headed by Niels Jacobsohn has placed the first o...

ACC 2017: Acarix trial finds 97% negative predictive value for CADScor system coronary artery disease test

Acarix has announced the results from a new multicentre trial of its handheld CADScor system f...