A newly published SCAI Expert Consensus Statement on the Management of Calcified Coronary Lesions, appearing in Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, outlines ...

US-based medical device company Shockwave Medical has finished enrolling subjects in the EMPOWER CAD study of percutaneous ...

For example, for better communication and more detailed description of a bifurcation lesion, an interventionalist could describe a heavily calcified thrombus containing lesion involving LM with ...

The ideal stent to treat very calcified lesions needs (1) a high radial force to resist the elastic recoil and radial crush and (2) a moderate outward expansive force to provide sufficient vessel ...

These complex lesions may be classified according to anatomic criteria, including extensive calcification, thrombus, and chronic occlusions, or by location, such as bifurcations, saphenous vein ...