Daxor Announces St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital of Houston, TX Acquires Blood Volume Analyzer BVA-100.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Daxor Corporation (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange : DXR DXR Danbury Municipal Airport, Danbury CT (airport code) DXR Data Extraction and Recording DXR X-Director DXR Dynamic Extended Resolution ), a medical instrumentation and biotechnology company, today announced the receipt of a signed trial agreement from the St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital  This hospital-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by [expanding it].St. of Houston, TX. St. Luke's Episcopal Health System started in 1954 as St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. St. Luke's soon made headlines with such milestones as the first successful heart transplantation Heart Transplantation Definition Heart transplantation, also called cardiac transplantation, is the replacement of a patient's diseased or injured heart with a healthy donor heart. , the first artificial heart implantation, and the first laser angioplasty procedure. These and other advances, along with the affiliation and chartering of the Texas Heart Institute (THI THI Townscape Heritage Initiative (UK grant program) THI Temperature Humidity Index THI Taeknihaskoli Islands (Technical University of Iceland; Reykjavik, Iceland) THI Target Hazard Index ), have made St. Luke's and THI a recognized world-class provider performing more than 100,000 open heart procedures, more than 200,000 cardiac catheterizations, and more than 25,000 cardiology interventions as an alternative to bypass surgery Bypass surgery A surgical procedure that grafts blood vessels onto arteries to reroute the blood flow around blockages in the arteries (arteriosclerosis). . In 2003, for the fourteenth consecutive year, St. Luke's and THI were selected by U.S. News World Report as one of America's best for heart care. "We are pleased to provide accurate blood volume measurements through the use of the BVA-100 to the Houston medical market," stated John Reyes-Guerra, Daxor's Vice President of Sales & Marketing. "We anticipate that the BVA-100 will be used to determine volume derangements in many clinical conditions where measuring the patient's blood volume may be an important factor in treatment." The Blood Volume Analyzer BVA-100 will reside within the Nuclear Medicine Department at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. This will be Daxor's first BVA-100 in Houston, Texas. St. Luke's focus continues to be providing quality, patient-focused care. Physicians in 23 clinical services covering more than 40 specialties are supported by some of the most advanced technologies available. In 2001, St. Luke's cared for approximately 32,879 inpatients and received more than 220,000 outpatient and emergency room visits. Daxor Corporation manufactures and markets the BVA-100, a semi-automated Blood Volume Analyzer. The BVA-100 is used in conjunction with a single use diagnostic kit. Among nationally renowned hospitals which have purchased the BVA-100 Blood Volume Analyzer after using it on a trial basis are The Mayo Clinic, The Cleveland Clinic and New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the Medical Center. This will be the first BVA-100 in Houston, Texas. For more information regarding Daxor Corporation's Blood Volume Analyzer BVA-100, visit Daxor's website www.Daxor.com, or contact Stephen Feldschuh, 212-330-8515 (VP of Operations) stephen@daxor.com or Diane Meegan, 212-330-8512 (Investor Relations) dmeegan@daxor.com. |
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