PARIS, France—Patients with calcified lesions undergoing PCI can benefit from an OCT-based strategy for lesion preparation and stent optimization, achieving greater minimum stent area (MSA) than with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Three publications in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions showed how intravascular lithotripsy may benefit ...

PARIS, France—Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) can safely aid in lesion preparation before PCI in patients with severe calcification and can lower the rate of postprocedural patient adverse outcomes, ...

Balloon lithotripsy better prepared severely calcified lesions for stenting compared with conventional techniques, based on results of intravascular imaging in the small, 200-person BALI trial. Among ...

—OCT results demonstrate effective treatment of a broad range of complex calcified lesions, including concentric and eccentric calcium and lesions with calcium nodules— “The cardiology community has ...

Liver lesions are abnormal growths on your liver. Most are noncancerous, or benign. Benign liver lesions don’t cause symptoms or require treatment unless they grow very large. Liver lesions are found ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Atherectomy has no advantage over conventional balloon angioplasty for the treatment of severe calcified lesions, according to unexpected results from the largest trial of the ...

ATLANTA -- Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) beat percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) for keeping calcified peripheral artery lesions open at 1 year, the Disrupt PAD III trial showed.

What Is a Liver Ultrasound? A liver ultrasound is a type of abdominal ultrasound, an imaging test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the organs and structures in your abdomen, ...