Search Tag: Heart
2014 12 Mar
As the first hospital in Illinois, the Loyola University Medical Center offers a new high-tech catheter device able to improve outcomes of patients treated for atrial fibrillation, the most common irregular heartbeat. The treatment, entitled catheter ablation, involves burning selected spots of tissue inside the heart with the tip of a catheter,...Read more
2013 01 Aug
Abbott announced on July 30, 2013, promising results from a study evaluating its High Sensitive Troponin-I (hsTnI) assay presented at this year’s American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) annual meeting in Houston, Texas. The study, conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, demonstrated that Abbott’s hsTnI test (currently...Read more