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Intravascular Ultrasound Outperforms Angiography for Peripheral Artery Disease Treatment

DAIC

It facilitates achieving sufficient vessel lumen diameters and aids in evaluating the response of the target lesion to treatment,” said Young-Guk Ko, MD , cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology at Severance Hospital and Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, and the study’s lead author.

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Lantheus Announces the FDA Approval of DEFINITY as Ultrasound Enhancing Agent for Use in Certain Pediatric Cardiovascular Patients

DAIC

Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) has approved DEFINITY (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) as an ultrasound enhancing agent for use in pediatric patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, including those who have undergone heart transplant, or have Kawasaki disease or a congenital cardiovascular anomaly. Lantheus announced that the U.S.

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Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month 2023: Everything You Need to Know

Cassling

Each year, Cassling is honored to connect diagnostic imaging teams with free resources to celebrate their sonographers during Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month. One piece of feedback we consistently receive is that hospital and health system leaders want even more opportunities to recognize the important work of their teams.

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Philips Expands Global Access to its Ground-breaking 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography to Hong Kong

DAIC

milla1cf Mon, 06/10/2024 - 18:04 June 10, 2024 — Royal Philips , a global leader in health technology, announced that the first hospitals in Hong Kong have started using Philips real-time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE) catheter – VeriSight Pro – to aid minimally-invasive image-guided procedures.

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Abstract WP76: Utilization Rate and Predictors Utilization of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Amongst Stroke Population of USA - A Nationwide Study

Stroke Journal

Introduction:Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound (TCD) has proven to be useful in monitoring vasospasm after intracerbral hemorrhage (ICH), predicting delayed ischemic stroke (AIS) (sensitivity 91.2%, specificity 80.8%), and assessing recanalization post-thrombolysis for AIS. (91%, XX as a primary diagnosis and 88.71 respectively.

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Reliability and agreement of point-of-care carotid artery examinations by experts using hand-held ultrasound devices in patients with ischaemic stroke or transitory ischaemic attack

Open Heart

Objectives To investigate the reliability and agreement of hand-held ultrasound devices (HUDs) compared with conventional duplex ultrasound (HIGH) in examination for carotid stenosis in patients with suspected transitory ischaemic attack (TIA) or ischaemic stroke. Different operators performed HUD and HIGH blinded to each other.

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Butterfly Network Launches Next-Generation Butterfly iQ3 in the United States

DAIC

a digital health company transforming care through the power of portable, semiconductor-based ultrasound technology and intuitive software, announced today the commercial launch of its third-generation handheld point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) system, Butterfly iQ3 , which received FDA clearance last month. The next-generation P4.3