News | Venous Therapies

September 11, 2017 — Veniti Inc. announced that Boston Scientific will distribute the Vici Venous Stent under a limited ...

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News | Cath Lab

September 11, 2017 — Researchers have led a retrospective single-center study examining simple hemodynamic parameters ...

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Blog | Cardiovascular Business

A cardiovascular service line manager reader of DAIC recently e-mailed me and asked if I had a list of the top ...

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News | Cardiovascular Surgery

September 8, 2017 — ClearFlow Inc. announced recently that positive clinical trial results were presented at the ...

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Abbott will end sales of the Absorb bioresorbable stent scaffold, pulling it off the market September 14, 2017.
Feature | Stents Bioresorbable | Dave Fornell

September 8, 2017 — Abbott Vascular has announced it will end commercial sales of its Absorb bioresorbable vascular ...

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Technology | Radiation Dose Management

September 7, 2017 — Sapheneia and Scannerside received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to ...

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News | Contrast Media

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it would hold a meeting of the Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee (MIDAC) on Sept. 8 to discuss regulatory approaches for use of gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs).

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LAA closure during open heart surgery in the LAACS Study showed better outcomes for all patients.
Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

September 7, 2017 — Closure of the left atrial appendage (LAA) during heart surgery protects the brain, according to ...

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Giving oxygen to patients suffering a heart attack is not beneficial, according to the DETO2X-AMI study.
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September 7, 2017 — Oxygen therapy does not improve survival in patients with heart attack symptoms, according to late ...

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PURE study may cause revision of fat intake guidelines for cardiology.
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September 7, 2017 — Researchers at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress called for a reconsideration of ...

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News | Blood Testing

In July, The Heart Institute at Florida Medical Center became the first hospital in the state of Florida to offer the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared high sensitive Elecsys Troponin T Gen 5 blood test (Troponin T Gen 5 or TnT Gen 5) to aid in the diagnosis of heart attacks. The new nine-minute test offers faster answers clinicians can use when diagnosing heart attack.

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News | Embolic Protection Devices

Protembis GmbH announced the first clinical applications of its ProtEmbo Cerebral Protection System to complement a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure. The ProtEmbo System is an intra-aortic filter device that deflects embolic material arising during TAVR away from the brain.

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Technology | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared TrueFusion, a new cardiovascular application from Siemens Healthineers that integrates ultrasound and angiography to guide cardiac teams when administering treatment for structural heart disease. Available on the new Release 5.0 of the Acuson SC2000 cardiovascular ultrasound system, TrueFusion is designed to maximize not only interventional cardiology procedures, but also routine diagnosis and follow-up of patients with structural heart disease.

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News | Heart Failure

September 6, 2017 — Physicians identified a majority of patients with advanced heart failure as at high risk for ...

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News | Hypertension

A new National Institutes of Health-funded hypertension trial will examine the possibility of using an emergency department setting to better identify people from central cities with limited access to other venues for medical care.

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