Knife-Less Brain 'Surgery' Offers New Treatment Options
..."We're moving the field forward." Another use for interventional procedures is the treatment of aneurysms, weak spots in blood vessels that could burst and cause bleeding in the brain. When aneurysms cannot be repaired surgically, micro-catheters can often be used to insert platinum coils or silicon balloons. N...Cordis Cardiology Introduces The MINI Crown Stent
...ew smaller vessel stenting as the next frontier in interventional cardiology. "There's no question that there is ...rupt or threatened closure in patients with failed interventional therapy in native coronary lesions (less than or equal to 25 mm) with reference diameters in the ran...Penn Researchers Find Chemoembolization Effective For Liver Tumors
... to cancerous cells with the useof a non-surgical, interventional catheterization technique. Thistechnique also involves the infusion of tiny particles that cutoff the blood supply to the tumor, thus inhibiting cancer-cellgrowth. Colon cancer that has metastasized, or spread, can bemanaged with chemoembolization wh...Magnetic Surgery System Tested Successfully On First Patient
...emonstrating the effectiveness of thisnew model of interventional medicine." Following the first clinical trial of the magnetic surgery system, Stereotaxiswill submit the results to the FDA. The company will then seek the agency'sapproval to conduct a second clinical trial involving frontal lobe biopsies in alarge...Radically New Type Of Surgery Tested On First Patient
...vigation - together for the firsttime, creating an interventional workstation," says Bevil Hogg, the company'sCEO. "...),gastroenterology, cardiology and other fields of interventional medicine. Forexample, it could be used to reach parts of the heart that have an abnormalelectrical r...Drip And Ship: Start Drug Early, Especially If Plan To Transfer Heart Patient To Larger Hospital
...tive cardiac catheterization laboratoriesand other interventional capabilities, patients are given the drug right away,and they do well," Greenbaum said. "The problem is that the majority of peoplein the U.S. and the world first come to hospitals that don't have thesecapabilities." To see if eptifibatide h..."Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
...out that patient profiles, drug costs and other interventional alternatives are issues to consider when deciding who should receive this "super aspirin." In his editorial, Dr. Fischman notes that the multicenter study, which is a three-year follow-up to an initial study of ReoPro™, le......t the same across the country, but that the use of interventional procedures and hospital stays varied widely, more than they expected. "The contrasts were quite striking, including some large differences in efficiency that we did not expect, as well as some we anticipated," said Eric Eisenstein, who specializes in...