- Industrie: Medical devices
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- Company Profile:
Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide.
A diagnostic test that uses a strong magnet to reveal and create pictures of different areas of the body, including blood vessels.
Industry:Medical devices
Procedural techniques that limit the size of abdominal incisions by using small incisions to gain access to the surgical site.
Industry:Medical devices
The total respiratory volume over one minute. In some adaptive-rate pacemakers, sensors detect changes in minute ventilation to indicate changes in metabolic need that result in an increase or decrease in the paced rate.
Industry:Medical devices
The heart valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle.
Industry:Medical devices
The frequency of complications following a surgical procedure or treatment. Also, a disease state that requires hospitalization.
Industry:Medical devices
Deaths from a given disease over a period of time, usually a year.
Industry:Medical devices
Death of an area of heart tissue due to a blockage of blood flow to the heart muscle (myocardium). Symptoms may include nausea, shortness of breath, and pain in the chest, arm, or neck. Also called a heart attack.
Industry:Medical devices
Oxygen deprivation of the heart muscle caused by a blockage in the blood vessels serving a particular region of the heart.
Industry:Medical devices
A lead designed to attach to the outside of the heart (epicardium). Sometimes called an epicardial lead.
Industry:Medical devices
An inflammation of the middle layer of the heart (the myocardium). Often begins as an infection by bacteria, viruses or other microbes. May result in enlarged ventricle.
Industry:Medical devices
