The intravascular ultrasound imaging system (IVUS) is a catheter-based imaging method that enables for viewing and assessment of blood vessel and heart morphological characteristics. It allows for ...

Advances in coronary imaging are needed to enable the early detection of plaque segments considered to be 'vulnerable' for causing clinical events. Pathological studies have contributed to our current ...

Evident Vascular, a company creating AI-enabled intravascular ultrasound technology, announced its launch today with $35 million in Series A financing. Vensana Capital led the round. The ...

Background Coronary allograft vasculopathy is a severe complication of heart transplantation. We used virtual histology intravascular ultrasound to characterize plaque burden and tissue composition ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although initially described in the early 1970s, technological advancements during the past 2 decades have ...

The enzyme acyl–coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) esterifies cholesterol in a variety of tissues. In some animal models, ACAT inhibitors have antiatherosclerotic effects. We performed ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—The use of intravascular imaging to guide complex PCI is associated with a significantly lower risk of target vessel failure when compared with conventional angiography, according to ...

Randomized to optical coherence tomography (OCT) or intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance, patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with contemporary stents showed a decrease ...

The blood pressure lowering drug aliskirend did not improve coronary artery disease when given to patients who had prehypertension, results of the Aliskiren Quantitative Atherosclerosis Regression ...

New York, United States, June 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CVS devices measure the diameter and length of a vessel or lumen. It helps to determine the amount and nature of plaque accumulation in a ...

Nissen SE, Tsunoda T, Tuzcu EM, Schoenhagen P, Cooper CJ, Yasin M, et al. Effect of recombinant ApoA-I Milano on coronary atherosclerosis in patients with acute coronary syndromes: a randomized ...