Results from a new survey from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association found that only half of healthcare professionals consider themselves adequately equipped with information about cryptogenic stroke, a stroke in which the underlying cause is still unknown after extensive testing. Depending on their specialty, 51-70 percent of physicians admit being uncertain about the best approaches to finding the underlying causes of these strokes. The survey, conducted in summer 2015, polled 652 healthcare professionals including neurologists, cardiologists, hospitalists, primary care physicians and stroke coordinators.

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St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the company has received CE Mark approval for the HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS). HeartMate 3 is a cardiac support option for advanced heart failure patients who are awaiting transplantation, are not candidates for heart transplantation or are in myocardial recovery.

A large observational registry found that initial aortic valve replacement (AVR) in asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) was associated with a lower risk of mortality and heart failure hospitalization compared with a conservative treatment strategy.

OrbusNeich announced the presentation of the one-year clinical outcomes from the 1,000-patient REMEDEE Registry at the 2015 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting, Oct. 11-15 in San Francisco. Data was presented by Robbert de Winter, M.D., Ph.D., of the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam and principal investigator of the study.