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First Patient in Europe Treated With Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. Diamondback 360® Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System
February 8, 2021 GMT
Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI
® ) (NASDAQ: CSII), a medical device company developing and commercializing innovative interventional treatment systems for patients with peripheral and coronary artery disease, announced today that the first patient in Europe has been treated with its Diamondback 360
® Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System (OAS).
Professor Nicolas Van Mieghem, Director of Interventional Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, who successfully treated the first European patient, said, “Patients with calcific coronary artery disease have poor clinical results. Diamondback 360 ® Coronary OAS streamlines treatment with a unique mechanism to successfully modify severe calcium and o
The team will explore the underlying molecular cause of mesenteric fibrosis, as well as develop new diagnostic and imaging tools to treat the condition .
Music may help patients recover more quickly after surgery
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Heart surgery can be stressful, but researchers may have found a way to reduce patients anxiety and postoperative pain without any extra side effects.
A team from the Netherlands found that the simple act of listening to music around the time of surgery may help patients as they recover.
Advertisement This is a fascinating question for heart surgeons because we perform the most invasive procedures that require opening the chest, stopping the heart, using a heart-lung machine while we fix the heart, and then allowing the patient to return to life again, said Dr. Harold Fernandez, a U.S. cardiac surgeon unconnected to the new study.