Using intravascular imaging (IVI) to guide stent implantation during complex stenting procedures is safer and more effective ...

Boston Scientific is making waves (literally and financially) with its $540 million acquisition of SoniVie Ltd., a company ...

Boston Scientific recently announced it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SoniVie Ltd. According to the press release, SoniVie is ...

FOR over one year, the only ultrasound machine in the antenatal ward at Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) in Kingston was out of commission. However, that problem was solved on Wednesday through the ...

Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Shockwave Medical aims to deliver intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) to a different type of blood vessel with a first-of-its-kind catheter platform. The Javelin Peripheral IVL ...

Non-ionizing approaches, such as Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), are progressively explored ... IVUS and EM pose data obtained from sensors embedded at the tip of a robotic catheter. This paper ...

Compared with prior studies that found substantially greater rates of complications,16 our data suggest that the complication profile of midlines has improved perhaps due to newer catheter materials ...

Credit: Jo Panuwat D / Shutterstock. Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Shockwave Medical has launched its Javelin Peripheral IVL Catheter in the US for peripheral artery disease (PAD). This new ...

The new guidelines offer strong validation for Conavi as the only provider of hybrid IVUS (ultrasound) and OCT (optical) imaging technology. As the authors explain, “both IVUS and OCT play ...

Credit: PeopleImages.com – Yuri A / Shutterstock. Boston Scientific is acquiring SoniVie, the developer of the catheter-based Tivus intravascular ultrasound system. With a current equity stake of ...

After confirming the wire's position via intravascular ultrasound, we inflated a drug-eluting balloon ... challenging because of a poor coaxial alignment of the guiding catheter and the inability to ...