Conavi Medical Applauds New American Journal of Cardiology Study Highlighting Importance of Intracoronary Imaging During PCI

TORONTO, July 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conavi Medical Inc. (TSXV: CNVI) (OTCQB: CNVIF), a leader in hybrid intracoronary imaging technologies, is pleased to highlight the recent publication in The American Journal of Cardiology titled “Regional Disparities and Predictors of Intracoronary Imaging Use During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the United States”. This comprehensive analysis, based on over 1.8 million patient records, underscores both the underutilization and growing clinical importance of intracoronary imaging (ICI) during percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI).

The peer-reviewed article, authored by leading interventional cardiologists at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and other prominent U.S. institutions, found that ICI—including intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT)—significantly improves outcomes in PCI, yet remains underused, with only 13.5% of patients receiving image-guided PCI by 2020.

Importantly, the study highlights growing momentum for ICI adoption, driven in part by recent upgrades in international guidelines, including Class IA recommendations in the 2024 ESC and 2025 ACC/AHA guidelines for complex PCI cases.

“This research confirms what many in the field have long known—that intracoronary imaging is vital to delivering safe, effective interventions, especially in complex lesions,” said Thomas Looby, CEO  of Conavi Medical. “As the only commercial provider of a hybrid IVUS+OCT system, Conavi is well-positioned to support this clinical shift with our Novasight Hybrid System, which delivers co-registered IVUS and OCT imaging in real time.”

Conavi’s Novasight Hybrid System is designed to address many of the barriers to adoption identified in the article, including lack of technical training, procedural complexity, and imaging interpretation. By unifying IVUS and OCT in a single platform, Novasight can enable physicians to access the complementary strengths of both modalities—IVUS for plaque burden and sizing/placing stents and OCT for lesion morphology and assessing stent expansion —with a streamlined workflow.

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