Tag: stroke
CT imaging reveals more than a third of ‘old strokes’ are...
A retrospective evaluation has found that more than a third of old strokes discovered via head computed tomography (CT) imaging are “unknown” to both...
Penumbra announces European launch of neuro access catheters
Penumbra has announced that it has received CE mark approval and so has initiated the European launch of BMX81 and BMX96, devices which are...
Cerenovus launches aspiration catheter for treatment of acute ischaemic stroke
Cerenovus, part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech, has today announced the launch of Cereglide 71 aspiration catheter in Europe, an aspiration catheter equipped with...
Avicenna.AI receives FDA 510k approval for PE and stroke severity technology
Medical imaging artificial intelligence (AI) company Avicenna.AI have today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
IsomAb announces close of £7.5 million financing to accelerate lead candidate...
IsomAb Ltd, a UK-based biotechnology company, has announced the closing of a £7.5 million (approximately US$9.4 million) seed financing round, led by Broadview Ventures, with...
Vision recovery among potential benefits of endovascular therapy in PCA occlusion...
A multicentre study presented at the recent European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC; 24–26 May, Munich, Germany) has found that vision recovery and an increased...
“Put ego aside” to keep patient outcome the priority during multidisciplinary...
“If it were easy, this session would not be here.” These are the words of Jens Ricke (University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany), who drew...
Truvic announces US FDA 510(k) clearance for Prodigy thrombectomy system
Truvic Medical, a subsidiary of Imperative Care, announced in a press release that it has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug...
CX 2022: A conversation with Robert Hinchliffe
Robert Hinchliffe (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK) shares his excitement to attend the upcoming CX Symposium (26–28 April, London, UK). “CX has always represented...
InspireMD announces the inclusion of its CGuard carotid stent in CREST-2...
InspireMD has announced that its CGuard embolic prevention stent system (EPS) will be included as a device option for stenting in CREST-2 (Carotid revascularisation...
Making the invisible visible: A clearer ‘picture’ of blood vessels in...
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed and tested a new imaging approach they say will accelerate imaging-based research in the lab by allowing investigators...
NovaGuide intelligent ultrasound found to significantly improve right-to-left shunt detection
NovaSignal Corporation has announced the results of a multicentre, prospective, single-arm study indicating that the company’s autonomous NovaGuide intelligent ultrasound is three times more...
Viz.ai launches two new AI-powered modules for pulmonary embolism and aortic...
Viz.ai has announced the US commercial launch of its AI-powered modules for pulmonary embolism and aortic disease. Debuting at VEITHsymposium 2021 (16–20 November, Orlando, USA), the...
Medtronic receives CE mark approval for radial artery access portfolio
Medtronic today announced it has received CE mark approval for its radial artery access portfolio, which includes the Rist radial access selective catheter and the Rist...
Singapore researchers develop novel 3D model to study vascular diseases
A Singapore team of scientists and clinicians from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), have developed a three-dimensional...
Five-year ACST-2 results: Carotid artery surgery and stenting have similar long-term...
Carotid artery surgery and stenting have comparable long-term effects on fatal or disabling stroke in asymptomatic patients with severe carotid artery stenosis. That is...
AHA scientific statement provides update on epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of...
The American Heart Association (AHA) has released a new scientific statement on lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD), focusing on contemporary epidemiology, management gaps,...
Higher risk of periprocedural hazards for patients undergoing carotid interventions after...
A systematic review and meta-analysis has demonstrated that patients undergoing carotid interventions after thrombolysis have a higher risk of periprocedural hazards, compared with those...
Avicenna.AI receives CE Mark for AI tool to assess stroke severity
Medical imaging AI specialist Avicenna.AI has received CE mark certification for its CINA ASPECTS AI tool for stroke severity assessment. CINA ASPECTS automatically processes...
Avicenna.AI secures FDA clearance for its CINA Head neurovascular imaging artificial...
Medical imaging artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Avicenna.AI has announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its...
Letter to CVIR Editor calls for “further European-wide initiatives” to establish...
Despite being “perfectly placed” to help meet the increasing demand for stroke thrombectomy, there is not an established training structure for interventional radiologists wishing...
Adequately trained interventional radiologists should be performing endovascular thrombectomies to relieve...
Thousands of eligible patients are not receiving endovascular thrombectomies after suffering a stroke due to a shortage of neurointerventionalists worldwide. In an effort to...
SIR publishes new training guidelines for endovascular thrombectomy
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has today published new training guidelines for endovascular stroke treatment in the Journal of Interventional Radiology (JVIR). This...
Transradial access is safe and effective for neuroendovascular procedures
In the largest cohort study to date, new research from Jefferson (Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA) demonstrates that transradial surgery, done...
CX audience votes against neurointerventionists exclusively performing intracranial thrombectomy
In the closest debate of the Acute Stroke Challenges session that took place on the first day of the Charing Cross (CX) Symposium (15–18...
Imperative care announces US clearance of the ZOOM aspiration system
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given 510(k) clearance to the ZOOM aspiration system (Imperative Care), a family of products designed to...
Interventional radiologists achieve similar clinical outcomes to published data for complex...
Appropriately trained interventional radiologists performing endovascular thrombectomy in technically complicated stroke cases achieve similar reperfusion and clinical outcomes to those reported in the published...
Preliminary in vitro data is promising for Anaconda Biomed’s advanced thrombectomy...
Preliminary in vitro data on Anaconda Biomed’s advanced thrombectomy system showed that the reperfusion rates with this novel system outperformed competing mechanical thrombectomy devices...
A call to arms: Recruit physicians with endovascular skills to treat...
“There are simply not enough trained specialists to treat stroke patients in the US. We need to recruit physicians with endovascular skills—interventional cardiologists,...
Leading interventional radiology societies call for expanded stroke training
In a joint, global position statement, the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) and the Interventional Radiology...
Strike now to perform stroke thrombectomy
Should interventional radiologists up-skill to perform emergency stroke thrombectomy and help deliver stroke services? And if they did, would the increase in the number...
Medical societies issue revised, patient-centred measures for stroke interventions
Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) publishes guidelines on clinical practice of intra-arterial stroke revascularisation
Revised guidelines for the non-surgical, image-guided interventional treatment of acute ischaemic...
Artificial intelligence and big data in medical imaging will dramatically change...
The analysis of big data with artificial intelligence (AI) techniques will have an enormous impact on disease prevention, cure and care. By 2030, it...
New ischaemic stroke guidelines widen mechanical thrombectomy window to 24 hours...
The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association released updated ischaemic stroke guidelines that were published in Stroke, and released during the International Stroke...
New UK guidance on training IR to speed up roll out...
Emergency mechanical thrombectomy dramatically increases a stroke patient’s chance of a full recovery. The UK does not have enough skilled doctors to provide the procedure....
Medtronic gets US FDA clearance for Riptide aspiration system
The Riptide aspiration system is intended for use in the revascularisation of patients with acute ischaemic stroke secondary to intracranial large vessel occlusive disease...
Viz.ai announces CE mark for first artificial intelligence powered direct-to-intervention system
Viz.ai has announced the CE mark of its direct-to-intervention system, ContaCT, a novel approach to stroke care that automatically analyses brain CTs and notifies...
Penumbra announces formation of virtual reality joint venture with Sixense Enterprises
Penumbra has announced that it has entered into a joint venture called MVI Health, for the purpose of exploring healthcare applications of virtual reality...
Vast majority of patients prefer radial access for embolization therapies in...
“While both radial and femoral accesses are safe and effective for transarterial liver embolization, it is clear that the patients prefer radial access,” said Marcelo Guimaraes, Charleston, USA, who was presenting on the...
ASTER trial finds “no increased rate of revascularisation” with stent retriever...
The ASTER randomised clinical trial that examined the effect of endovascular contact aspiration vs. stent retriever on revascularisation in patients with acute ischaemic stroke...
ASTER results support use of Penumbra aspiration as frontline thrombectomy therapy...
Penumbra has announced the presentation of the results of the ASTER trial, the first independent, prospective, randomised trial comparing the use of Penumbra’s aspiration...
Twelve-month PARADIGM study data demonstrate benefit of CGuard Embolic Prevention System...
InspireMD has announced 12-month follow up data from PARADIGM-101 study of the CGuard Embolic Prevention System (EPS), which were presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular...
