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Siemens Healthcare innovations for cardiology at ESC 2009

Siemens Healthcare exhibits its innovations for cardiology at the Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2009. In addition to the latest imaging systems, this also includes laboratory diagnostics and clinical IT systems for patient management. During this year's event, Siemens will be offering visitors to the congress an extensive theoretical and practical training program on new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. Siemens Healthcare will be demonstrating its new cardiac application- syngo DynaCT Cardiac at the ESC 2009.

During transfemoral aortic valve replacement, a heart valve prosthesis gets implanted via peripheral artery access. To position aortic valve prostheses accurately, the cardiologist must have very precise knowledge of the individual anatomy of the patient’s aorta. That's where syngo DynaCT Cardiac comes in: During the intervention, it generates CT-like cross-sectional images on an angiographic C-arm system and offers 3D reconstruction of the aortic root. These 3D images can be overlaid on actual fluoroscopic images and provide a kind of three-dimensional roadmap for the examiner. Thus, with syngo DynaCT Cardiac, the cardiologist can position the valve prosthesis more accurate and more quickly than before.

Siemens Healthcare also offers its customers extensive training sessions in dealing with innovative techniques in cardiology at this years Congress of the European Society of Cardiology. The topics covered include, for example, cardiovascular CT and MRI, real-time 3D echocardiography and management of heart failure.

Source: Siemens Healthcare