Medical innovation will help thousands of heart patients

Sioux Technologies and the English start-up Echopoint Medical Ltd. are launching a revolutionary technology to detect heart disease: iKOr. This medical diagnostic device uses glass fibres and laser light to map blood flow very accurately in the tiny blood vessels around the heart. Traditional angiograms focus on the large coronary arteries where small details are not clearly visible.
iKOr is expected to help thousands of heart patients. Especially women with heart disease will benefit substantially, as problems often arise in the small blood vessels and are overlooked. iKOr was recently successfully tested on the first three patients during clinical trials at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Read more...