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Calcium

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Cheyenne Regional Medical Center became the first hospital in the state last week to use new Shockwave technology to open a patient’s blocked coronary artery, according to a statement from the center. The patient’s artery was blocked with calcified plaque. The new technology fractured the calcium with sonic pressure waves, according to Dr. Abdur Khan, …

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MONTREAL–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SoundBite Medical Solutions Inc. (SBMS), a medical device company dedicated to developing solutions for the interventional treatment of calcific peripheral and coronary arterial diseases, today announced the use of its novel Active Wire 0.014” platform at a first site in the United States in the successful treatment of patients suffering from critical limb ischemia …

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A mechanism which enables infants to absorb large amounts of calcium has been identified in mice by a group of researchers at the University of Alberta. The findings are published in the journal Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology.Although the process of calcium absorption in adult mammals had been previously elucidated to take place …