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Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a unique imaging technology that yields a cross-sectional view of blood vessels from the inside-out. IVUS can accurately show the location, magnitude and type of plaque that is building up inside the arteries. (Read more...)


Fractional Flow Reserve
A narrowing may exist in an artery, but is that narrowing causing a problem? One way to determine this is by using a special catheter to measure Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) which actually quantifies the blood flow and may indicate that an intervention is not necessary. (Read more...)    

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NewsCenter: Reports and Features
Breaking news, original reporting and links to research about intravascular ultrasound and related devices:
•  Cordis Europe Partnering With Volcano Europe to Provide Access to Intravascular Imaging (IVUS) for Use in Drug-Eluting Stent Procedures (Nov 8)
•  Most Heart Stents Are Placed Imperfectly, Increasing Risk of Heart Attack or Reclosure (May 30)
•  COURAGE, SPIRIT Data May Support Role of Advanced Imaging and Diagnosis With IVUS and FFR (April 18)
•  Volcano Corp. Reports Use of IVUS Increasing as Physicians Refocus on Stent Technique
•  "I can see clearly now" -- IVUS and Thrombosis -- Editor's Blog
•  Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Imaging Technology May Help Lower Rates of Late Stent Thrombosis
•  Abbott Vulnerable Plaque Study Completes Enrollment
•  All Intravascular Ultrasound News
 
Angioplasty.Org Interview with:
Craig A. Thompson, MD, MMSc
Craig A. Thompson, MD     Dr. Thompson is Director of the Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratory at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire and is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Dartmouth Medical School.

In this interview, Dr. Thompson discusses how IVUS is used at Dartmouth and why it is important for fellows in training to learn the full line of diagnostic modalities available to improve patient care.

Q: Do you think that with the coming “2.0 generation” of drug-eluting stents you will not need to use IVUS as much because these new stents will be easier to deploy?
Dr. Thompson: No, I think it still has a role. In fact, the more complex disease one is dealing with, I think the greater relative value-add IVUS gives you. What we've seen is that drug-eluting stents, generation 1.0 if you will, was an enabling technology for us to address and approach disease that would never been touched prior to drug-eluting stents, ever, because of the severity of the disease, because of the durability expectations, and so forth....

When generation 2.0 comes along, I think that's going to be an even more enabling technology because the stents are probably as good, if not better, in terms of efficacy, but the improvements in deliverability again become something of a game-changer in the types of disease that most interventionalists can address. So now you're getting stents to even more complex anatomy and more distal anatomy, and one has to really be that much more sure that the job is done very well.... And I have very strong bias to believe that more complex disease state, the more value there is to utilizing IVUS as an adjunct to intervention. (Read entire interview...)


Also read the Angioplasty.Org Interviews with:
John McBarron Hodgson, MD
Dr. Hodgson of Santé Cardiology is a recent Past President of the SCAI and a founding member of the SCCT. He has published over 200 peer reviewed articles, 8 books or book chapters, and co-developed the TeachIVUS online training tool.     John McBarron Hodgson, MD

Antonio Colombo, MD
Known worldwide as one of the leaders of interventional cardiology, Dr. Colombo is a pioneering force in the field of coronary stent placement. In this interview, he explains how he uses IVUS to improve outcomes and reduce the incidence of stent thrombosis.     Antonio Colombo, MD

Michael C. Foster, MD
Dr. Foster of the South Carolina Heart Center has been involved in assessing numerous innovations in cardiology. He is a strong proponent of IVUS, which he feels can make a signficant addition to the armamentarium of the interventionalist.     Michael C. Foster, MD

Paul Yock, MD
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Paul Yock, MD

One of the pioneers of intravascular ultrasound imaging, Dr. Yock discusses how IVUS changed the way stents were deployed.

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