The interventional cardiologists who perform these procedures are often eager to adopt new technologies.
King III, chairman of interventional cardiology at Piedmont Hospital's Fuqua Heart Center in Atlanta.
However, the findings do dovetail with what other interventional studies have found, experts say.
Many contend that this is what's happening with the evidence for carotid interventional treatments.
"We're counting on the competition, " says Samin Sharma, an interventional cardiologist at Mount-Sinai Hospital in New York.
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As previously reported on CardioBrief, Moses is among the highest paid interventional cardiologists in the country.
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The advent of angioplasty created a new breed: the interventional cardiologist--14, 000 of them.
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"We had a patient out kayaking the next day, " says Bradford Wood, an interventional radiologist at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
The story contained allegations that the well-known interventional cardiologist had tested positive for cocaine but was allowed to continue performing procedures at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
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Cutlip, head of interventional cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center.
"It is absolutely shocking, " says Mayo Clinic interventional neuroradiologist David Kallmes, who led one of the studies in conjunction with researchers at the University of Washington.
"We are shifting the nature of health care from maximally invasive to minimally invasive therapies, " says Joshua Hirsch, director of interventional neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Holbrook, it turns out, has been developing a new, webOS-based system that could make it a lot easier for doctors to conduct interventional MRI procedures.
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"We are in the beginning of what will be a huge new field of tumor ablation, " says interventional radiologist Stephen Solomon at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Here at the Trans Catheter Therapeutics (TCT) conference, an annual meeting of interventional cardiologists, hopes for new stents have been a bright spot in a constant debate.
The minister is expected to make a decision on the future model for provision of paediatric cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology for Northern Ireland in early 2013.
One of them is Willy Ezratty, ranked No. 1 in his age division, whose father Ari Ezratty, an interventional cardiologist, is now building a court at their home.
"This time of year is notorious for heart attacks, heart failures, and arrhythmias, " says Samin Sharma, MD, director of interventional cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
"And it's because of this set of solutions that we don't see lots of owls lying on the forest floor having suffered strokes, " the interventional neuroradiologist told BBC News.
Dr. Aaron Kaplan is a friend of ours, a successful interventional cardiologist and medical device entrepreneur, who talks about this challenge in market validation when he speaks in our class.
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In collaboration with leading clinicians, researchers and scientists worldwide, Medtronic offers the broadest range of innovative medical technology for the interventional and surgical treatment of cardiovascular disease and cardiac arrhythmias.
But Samin Sharma, an interventional cardiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital who performs more than 1, 000 angioplasties a year, says the worries were affecting his practice even before the European cardiology meeting.
Healthcare Systems, the largest division of GE Healthcare, consists of a broad portfolio of technology businesses including Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, Ultrasound, Monitoring Solutions, Molecular Imaging, X-Ray, Interventional, Life Support, and Home Health.
King, a noted interventional cardiologist at Fuqua Heart Center in Atlanta, wrote that he was unsure patients would opt for stents if they knew the devices would not prevent heart attacks and deaths.
Leading interventional cardiologist Jeffrey Moses tested positive for cocaine use but was allowed to continue his work at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, according to a news report in the New York Post.
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King, a noted interventional cardiologist at Fuqua Heart Center in Atlanta, wrote in an editorial that he was unsure that patients would opt for stents if they knew the devices would prevent heart attacks and deaths.
Between 5% and 10% of patients with cardiovascular problems develop clots, estimates Donald Baim, an interventional cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who is also a scientific adviser to OmniSonics, as well as a shareholder.
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