RenalGuard Solutions Inc. reported positive results from a first-in-man feasibility study focusing on a novel use of the RenalGuard System to manage fluids during diuretic therapy in congestive heart failure patients suffering from fluid overload. The results were recently presented at the annual Devices in Heart Failure (D-HF) Congress, Dec. 15-16 in Berlin, Germany, by Prof. Piotr Ponikowski, M.D., of the Wroclaw Medical University, Poland, and Prof. Felix Mahfoud, M.D., of the Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany.

December 29, 2017 — iVascular announced the release of the new Oceanus 14 Pro percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA ...

Vivasure Medical announced in October the successful enrollment of the first patient in the Frontier IV clinical study, a non-randomized multicenter international trial, designed to expand the indications of the PerQseal large arteriotomy closure technology. The patient was enrolled by Peter Crean, M.D., at the Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.

Corindus Vascular Robotics Inc. announced recently that Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center has launched the first vascular robotic program in the Houston area with the installation of two Corindus CorPath GRX Systems. In addition and as part of the program launch, Corindus will partner with Houston Methodist to develop a Global Center of Excellence that will seek to advance clinical research on robotics and to train interventional cardiologists on robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI).

HeartFlow Inc. announced that Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC), which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in five states, has issued a medical policy for the HeartFlow FFRct Analysis, a non-invasive technology that helps clinicians diagnose and treat patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). HCSC — which operates Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas — has determined that the use of noninvasive fractional flow reserve (FFR) following a positive coronary computed tomography (CT) angiogram may be considered medically necessary to guide decisions about the use of invasive coronary angiography in patients with stable chest pain at intermediate risk of CAD.

December 22, 2017 — To help streamline treatment of patients with heart failure and ensure the best possible patient ...

December 21, 2017 — Bay Labs, a medical technology company applying artificial intelligence (AI) to cardiovascular ...