Comments from Early Collaborators
"VH IVUS is the first IVUS system capable of providing information in the cardiac catheterization laboratory about the plaque composition" said Martin B. Leon, MD Chairman of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation® and the Associate Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy (CIVT) at Columbia University Medical Center, New York City. Dr. Leon continued, "This impressive technology will assist us in interpreting our ultrasound results and is expected to provide important new information to guide the management of our patients. We are aggressively studying this new technology and assessing its optimal role in the cath lab."
Professor Patrick W. Serruys, Thoraxcentre, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands commented: "The use of IVUS today is generally focused on providing geometric measurements of the vessel and lumen. Due to IVUS' inability to display plaques other than as grayscale renderings, interventionalists have had difficulty drawing conclusions about the plaque type or disease type seen in individual patients. Plaque imaging using VH IVUS will provide key information and may shift the paradigm of how we diagnose and manage patients with cardiovascular disease."