- Industry: Medical devices
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Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide.
A group of fibers that continue the electrical impulses to the ventricles that trigger contraction.
Industry:Medical devices
A diagnostic monitor worn by a patient that utilizes a continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) to detect abnormal changes in the heart's rhythm.
Industry:Medical devices
An area of deadened tissue resulting from the obstruction of blood circulation that normally nourishes tissue. A myocardial infarction refers to myocardial tissue damage due to interrupted blood flow through a coronary artery. A myocardial infarction is frequently referred to as a heart attack.
Industry:Medical devices
The largest vein in the body. It returns blood from the lower half of the body to the right atrium of the heart.
Industry:Medical devices
A device evaluation performed during a follow-up visit of a device patient; session with the device to assess the pacemaker lead wires, the battery level, and evaluate heart rhythms detected by the pacemaker.
Industry:Medical devices
A hollow tubular device used for the introduction of catheters or needles.
Industry:Medical devices
Insufficient blood flow to and oxygen deprivation of tissue, usually due to constriction or obstruction of an artery.
Industry:Medical devices
A heart condition caused by narrowing of the coronary arteries and characterized by a decreased blood supply to the heart. Also called coronary artery disease (CAD) and coronary heart disease.
Industry:Medical devices
A form of minimally invasive surgery in which viewing endoscopes and small diameter surgical instruments are inserted into the abdominal cavity through small incisions instead of through large abdominal incisions..
Industry:Medical devices
One of the three main coronary arteries that supplies blood to the heart. The LCA supplies about 65% of the heart's blood.
Industry:Medical devices
