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(Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson on Friday agreed to buy Shockwave Medical in a deal valued at $13.1 billion including debt, as it builds its cardiac-health-centric medical devices business to help ...
News of the talks lifted shares of Shockwave Medical up 11.5% in afternoon trade. The company makes a device which uses shockwaves to break down calcified plaque in heart vessels, similar to how ...
(Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday it would buy medical device maker V-Wave for up to $1.1 billion, the latest in a string of acquisitions aimed at driving growth once its blockbuster ...
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy. ESWT device (EMS Swiss DolorClast) ICD-10-PCS. 6A93. ICD-9-CM. 98.5. [ edit on Wikidata] ESWT device. Extracorporeal shockwave therapy ( ESWT) is a treatment using powerful acoustic pulses which is mostly used to treat kidney stones and in physical therapy and orthopedics. [ 1][ 2]
Blast injury. A blast injury is a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion. [ 1] Blast injuries occur with the detonation of high-order explosives as well as the deflagration of low order explosives. These injuries are compounded when the explosion occurs in a confined space.
The shockwave from the Chelyabinsk meteor that rocketed across the Russian morning sky on 15 February 2013. In physics, a shock wave (also spelled shockwave ), or shock, is a type of propagating disturbance that moves faster than the local speed of sound in the medium. Like an ordinary wave, a shock wave carries energy and can propagate through ...
Johnson & Johnson is pumping more money into heart care with a roughly $13 billion deal for Shockwave Medical, which specializes in technology that helps open clogged arteries. The health care ...
ICD-9-CM. 98. MeSH. D008096. MedlinePlus. 007113. [ edit on Wikidata] Lithotripsy is a procedure involving the physical destruction of hardened masses like kidney stones, [ 1] bezoars [ 2] or gallstones, which may be done non-invasively. The term is derived from the Greek words meaning "breaking (or pulverizing) stones" ( litho- + τρίψω ...