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NEW YORK, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- /Continental Who's Who/ -- Dr. Daniel Soffer, MD is recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the field of Medicine as a result of his role as a Cardiologist with Mount Sinai Medical Center. In his current role, Dr. Soffer's areas of expertise include percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) in patients with cryptogenic stroke, atrial septal defect (ASD) closure, and percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty of the...
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced that the XIENCE Xpedition((TM)) Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and is launching immediately in the United States, providing physicians with a next-generation technology with the largest size matrix in the U.S. market. XIENCE Xpedition features a new stent delivery system designed to optimize deliverability, particularly in...
Continuous Improvement of Medical Protocols Makes New York’s Busiest Cardiac Catheterization Lab Also One of Its Safest New York, NY (PRWEB) March 14, 2012 Mount Sinai’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory has been awarded New York State’s highest "two-star" safety rating in the categories of overall and non-emergency cases for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to new data released March 13, 2012 that examine patient discharges from 2007 – 2009. The Lab...
EVERGREEN PARK, Ill., Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mention the phrase "door-to-balloon time," and you're likely to get a few blank stares. But not from 67-year-old Judith O'Sullivan of Orland Park. O'Sullivan not only understands what the phrase means, she knows that it saved her life at Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers earlier this year. Door-to-balloon time is a term coined by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to describe the time it takes for a hospital to...
Delaying stenting of blocked coronary arteries may be superior for heart-attack patients The Canadian Journal of Cardiology (www.onlinecjc.ca) has published a paper on the timing of coronary stenting, a thought-provoking paper that challenges one of the dogmas of acute heart attack management today. Emergency procedures to open blocked coronary arteries in patients with acute myocardial infarction have revolutionized cardiology by preventing heart attacks and their complications. Stents...
New guidelines for the management of patients with unstable angina and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (termed acute coronary syndromes) have been released by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. The guidelines were created by a consortium of national experts including a cardiologist from Baylor College of Medicine."This important document is an update of the 2007 ACC/AHA guidelines. We examined past recommendations, reviewed the clinical data...
ROSLYN, N.Y., Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Newell Robinson, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery; George Petrossian, M.D., Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Procedures; Andrew Berke, M.D., interventional cardiologist; and Roberto Colangelo, M.D., cardiothoracic surgeon at St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center® are part of the medical team that is testing a device that may offer new hope for patients with symptomatic, severe aortic stenosis....
Researchers from the Cardiac & Vascular Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center will present at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 scientific symposium on September 21-25, 2010 in Washington, DC. They will be available for interviews during the conference.Louis Miller, MDInterventional Cardiology Fellow, Department of Medicine, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology at NYU Langone Medical CenterWednesday, September 22, 2010Presenter"¢Very Long-term Clinical...
STOCKHOLM, August 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- - The Stent for Life Initiative (SFL) Celebrates its First Year Anniversary as the ESC 2010 Congress in Stockholm, Monday August 30th InspireMD Ltd., a medical device company engaged in the development and commercialization of MGuard(TM) novel stent systems, is happy to announce that it has joined the Stent for Life Initiative as a supporting organization. The Stent for Life Initiative aims to improve the delivery and patient access...
First randomized controlled trial demonstrates patients do not benefit from routine balloon pumping during high-risk angioplastyPatients with coronary artery disease undergoing angioplasty do not benefit from having their circulation artificially supported with a balloon pump as a preventative measure during angioplasty, according to the first randomised trial studying the practice and published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).The trial was carried out across...
