Learn about IVL’s unique mechanism of action in fracturing severe, superficial and deep calcium and the clinical outcomes associated with IVL in the coronary and peripheral vasculature.
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Learn about IVL’s unique mechanism of action in fracturing severe, superficial and deep calcium and the clinical outcomes associated with IVL in the coronary and peripheral vasculature.
Topics: DISRUPT CAD, IVL Technology, DISRUPT PAD, Coronary Clinical Data, Peripheral Clinical Data
“I think this is going to work!”
Topics: IVL Technology, Coronary Clinical Data, Peripheral Clinical Data
If you missed the two Shockwave IVL sessions at EuroPCR 2021, or would like to watch the symposia again, you’re in luck. The Shockwave IVL content from EuroPCR 2021 is available here.
Topics: Medical Meetings, Coronary Cases, Coronary Clinical Data, Shockwave C2, Coronary Conferences
We had the privilege of connecting with Dr. Robert Riley Director, Complex Coronary Therapeutics Program, The Christ Hospital Health System. Dr. Riley is the leading author of the abstract for the Patient-Level Pooled Analysis of the Disrupt CAD I, II, III and IV studies and presented at ACC.21 Virtual.
Topics: Coronary IVL, DISRUPT CAD, Coronary Cases, Coronary Clinical Data, Shockwave C2, Coronary Conferences
You know the expression – “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Well if there’s anything that we learned over the last year, it’s that this phrase absolutely does not apply to anything related to IVL.
Topics: Medical Meetings, Coronary Cases, Coronary Clinical Data, Shockwave C2, Coronary Conferences
In case you missed its live airing, tune into a great discussion from coronary IVL’s most knowledgeable operators about how they are treating severely calcified lesions, their tips and tricks using IVL in real world practice as well as their clinical experience with IVL.
Topics: Coronary Cases, Coronary Clinical Data, Shockwave C2
If an image is worth a thousand words, then we’d have to write a novel to capture all of the key takeaways from the 300 OCT images (i.e. pre-IVL, post-IVL & post-DES) that were taken from the 100 patients that participated in the Disrupt CAD III OCT sub-analysis. Thankfully, we ditched the novel and opted for an easy-to-digest infographic to capture the 10 most pertinent data points from the OCT study presented at TCT Connect. Happy viewing!
Topics: Coronary Cases, Coronary Clinical Data, Shockwave C2
Eccentric calcium has always been a ‘pain’…a real thorn in the interventionalists’ side. While current devices in eccentric calcium often expand the healthy, non-calcified side of the artery or fall subject to wire bias that prevents it from reaching the calcified side of the artery, coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) offers a new alternative that can modify both concentric and eccentric calcium equally as well. Don’t be satisfied with less than ideal stent expansion in eccentric calcium, instead learn how Dr. Margaret McEntegart has used IVL to modify eccentric calcium in the left main and hear Profs. Holger Nef & Carlo Di Mario share their recent publications and clinical data comparing IVL outcomes in eccentric and concentric calcified lesions.
Assessment and Management of Calcified Coronary Lesions, Part 1/5
Live in a Box: Left Main Bifurcation Lesion with Eccentric Calcium, Part 2/5
CAD I/II Analysis: Eccentric Vs. Concentric Lesions, Part 3/5
Lithotripsy in Eccentric and Concentric Coronary Calcifications, Part 4/5
Discussion and Conclusion, Part 5/5
Topics: Coronary Cases, Coronary Clinical Data, Shockwave C2, CAD Applications - Eccentric Lesions
Dr. Sandeep Basavarajaiah, consultant cardiologist at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, UK, and other leading UK and Italian cardiologists published their initial real-world experience with Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) in a real-world population, in Catheter Cardiovasc Interv: “Intravascular lithotripsy in calcified-coronary lesions: A real-world observational, European multicenter study”.
Topics: Coronary IVL, Coronary Clinical Data, Shockwave C2
At TCT Connect, investigators presented the 30-day primary endpoint analysis of the Disrupt CAD III study, the largest and most rigorous coronary IVL study to date.
Topics: Coronary IVL, DISRUPT CAD, Coronary Cases, Coronary Clinical Data
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.
