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Change isn't quick. Unless it's when you experience Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) for the first time. Stay apprised of our latest news and insights while discovering how a simple and intuitive tool can be The Catalyst to change the way you think about calcium modification.
Recently, Dr. James Spratt, consultant cardiologist at St George's University NHS Trust in London and founder of Optima Education, and other leading UK cardiologists published their experience with Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) in the left main in EuroIntervention: Intravascular lithotripsy for the treatment of calcific distal left main disease.
Topics: Coronary IVL, Coronary Cases, Coronary Clinical Data, Shockwave C2
The story of how Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) came into being is a paragon of true innovation – it could be a chapter out of Steven Johnson’s book, Where Good Ideas Come From. The founders demonstrate a textbook example of how the amalgamation of building liquid networks, developing the slow hunch, error, serendipity, and expanding into the adjacent possible led to the disruptive innovation that is IVL.
See what role a child’s piece of chalk, organic chicken eggs and cadaver legs all play in IVL’s journey from idea to reality in this fun video.
Topics: IVL Technology
At Shockwave, we’re committed to the creation of sound clinical evidence to support the adoption and long-term utilization of our technology. This includes a balance of high-quality Shockwave-sponsored and investigator-initiated research studies to advance the knowledge of our technology’s performance in daily practice.
While you can read more about our company-sponsored clinical trials on the website here, there hasn’t been a good resource for our customers to understand what investigator-initiated studies we’re also supporting…until now.
Topics: Coronary Clinical Data, Shockwave C2
Last month, we had the pleasure of being hosted by Prof. Holger Nef from Giessen, Germany, and Dr. Nikos Werner at his cath lab in Trier, Germany, for a day of cases followed by a live webinar with InCathLab.
Topics: Coronary IVL, Coronary Cases, Shockwave C2
This case was the winner of the inaugural TopShock case competition at TCT 2019 – a satellite symposium sponsored by Shockwave Medical. This post was written by Dr. Thomas E. Waggoner for The Catalyst.
Topics: Peripheral IVL, PAD Applications - TAVR Access, Peripheral Conferences
Recently, Dr. Stefan Harb partnered with Drs. Patrick Siegrist and Tim Schäufele to host the first ever IVL workshop in the DACH region at LKH Graz II Standort West in Graz, Austria. We asked Stefan to relay some of his key takeaways during the workshop and some of the more interesting discussions for the benefit of IVL users across the EU. We hope you enjoy his recap:
Topics: Coronary IVL, IVL Technology, Coronary Cases, Shockwave C2
Frank Arko III, MD is the Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center, Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the busiest aortic repair centers in the world. He is a global expert on aortic repair techniques and peripheral arterial disease.
Topics: Peripheral IVL, Peripheral Conferences, PAD Applications - EVAR, PAD Applications - TEVAR
Regardless of what party you align with or what type of calcium is the most challenging to you, CRT has a lithotripsy presentation for everyone this year in DC. Whether it’s calcified iliacs that prevent transfemoral access for TAVR and Impella procedures or calcified tibials in critical limb ischemia. Or if you’re in the EU (and the UK) and calcified bifurcations, ostials and left mains are more your cup of tea, we've got that too. Regardless of where challenging calcium presents itself, CRT will be showcasing how lithotripsy addresses it.
Topics: Coronary Conferences
If we were to summarize LINC 2020 in one sentiment it would be: compelling science with great clinicians from around the world, and Shockwave IVL was no exception. We had the privilege of being spotlight-featured in ten physician presentations, representing four specialties, from five countries around the world. Talk about an international meeting! The speakers, featured in our IVL Booth Speaker Series, on the podium, and in the Main Arena, shared cases and first-hand experience of how IVL cracks calcium across a broad range of peripheral anatomy – from the iliacs to the ankles.
Topics: Medical Meetings, Peripheral IVL
Recently, Dr. Alfonso Ielasi, an interventional cardiologist from Sant'Ambrogio Cardio-Thoracic Center in Milan, Italy, published one of his “Rotatripsy” cases in Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine: "Rota-tripsy": A successful combined approach for the treatment of a long and heavily calcified coronary lesion.
Topics: Coronary Cases
But, right now we're in the early phases of the R&D program. In the meantime, don't miss the IVL application that heart teams are embracing already — maintaining transfemoral TAVR access through heavily calcified iliacs by using IVL.
