Cardiometabolic
Includes cardiometabolic-related technologies including indications like NASH, Cirrhosis, CKD, nephrosis, and diabetic kidney disease.
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University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a novel handheld oscillating wire torquing device to assist the delivery of interventional guidewires.
Researchers at University of Pittsburgh have developed a novel dual lumen intravascular ultrasound catheter, with the primary goal of optimizing the process of true lumen reentry during chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention.
Implanted medical devices cause over a million infections per year, posing both an enormous burden on the healthcare system and serious risk to the health of the patient.
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a localized dilatation of the abdominal aorta, and may rupture if left untreated.
This is a groundbreaking innovation designed to support and functionally test human hearts outside the body.
Fenestrated endovascular grafts are the next generation of stent grafts used to repair aortic aneurysms.
Chronic pancreatitis affects nearly 200,000 people in the US. These patients suffer severe and intractable pain, often requiring medicating with opioids to manage, and are at a greatly increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
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Peripheral intravenous catheters, or IVs, are a mainstay of providing therapies in modern medicine. Yet approximately 90 million people every year require multiple attempts to establish IV access, resulting in patient discomfort, increased hospital cost associated with employee time, and delays in delivering important therapies.
Smart stents are capable of wirelessly reporting the degree of restenosis, alerting the patient to the need for a hospital visit before damage due to heart attack, blood clot, or aneurysm can occur.
In the United States, the need for donor organs surpasses the supply by fourfold. Donation after cardiac death is a rapidly growing source of organs that also poses its own set of complications.
Hemorrhage after penetrating injury of the torso is a common but preventable cause of death on the battlefield.
University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a novel approach to eliminate intimal hyperplasia, a common reason for arterial vein graft failure, by creating a biodegradable perivascular electrospun polymer wrap.