Building on a Breakout Year, a Medtech Startup Targets Calcified Arteries

FastWave Medical used 2025 to make uncommon progress for an early-stage company, advancing not one but two differentiated IVL ...
Medical Dialogues

Cutting and Noncompliant Balloons Equal IVL in Safety and Efficacy for Calcified Coronary Lesions: Study

Researchers have identified in a new study that both super-high-pressure noncompliant balloons and cutting balloons are ...
Healio

Treatment of Severely Calcified Left Main Disease With Atherectomy

Severe coronary artery calcification poses unique challenges to successful PCI. Severe coronary artery calcification is associated with lower procedural success rates, as it may impede stent delivery.
TCTMD

Ultrasound May Prove Useful in Softening Calcified Bioprosthetic Valves

Delivering short pulses of high-pressure ultrasound to calcified bioprostheses may soften the valves and relieve stenosis, new preclinical and in vitro data show. The hope is that one day, with ...
TCTMD

BRS Use in Calcified Lesions Feasible With Aggressive Preparation

Treatment of calcified lesions with bioresorbable scaffolds (BRS) is feasible and yields angiographic success that matches what can be achieved for noncalcified lesions, according to a small study ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Calcified Left Ventricular Aneurysm

Lee and Atwood (March 6 issue) 1 provide an example of a calcified left ventricular aneurysm visualized by computed tomography (CT). On closer inspection, the pattern of calcifications in the apical ...