AHA president says COVID has a direct impact on the heart and preventive measures for heart disease largely went out the window during the pandemic
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COVID-19 Long-term Impacts Will Likely Include Higher Rates of Heart Disease

July 26, 2021 — Heart disease and stroke continue to kill more people in the U.S. than any other cause, despite, and ...

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The CathWorks angiography image derived FFR assessment system has received national reimbursement approval in Japan. The system uses a rotational angiography image dataset taken while the patient is in the cath lab to quickly reconstruct a 3-D coronary tree showing FFR numbers for all of the artery segments. 
News | FFR Technologies
CathWorks FFRangio System Receives National Reimbursement Approval in Japan

July 26, 2021 – CathWorks announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the ...

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Improving Consistency and Standardization with Structured Reporting in cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), cardiac PACS.
Sponsored Content | Feature | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)
Improving Consistency and Standardization With Structured Reporting

Jeff Rieder M.D., a cardiologist with Coastal Cardiology Charleston, clearly recalls the time when reporting was ...

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In the past decade there has been a proliferation of clinical-grade wearable monitors and implantable devices such as pacemakers, ICDs, implantable cardiac monitors, and new pacemaker-like devices that can control hypertension. In the near future, these devices will be tied into a body-wide internet of things for specific patients that can transmit patient data to clinicians wirelessly to enable an integrated, more robust form of telecardiology and telemedicine.
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Next Generation Cardiac Wearables and Implantables Will Integrate Into Wireless Body Area Networks 

Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death for people over 65 years old in North America and Europe ...

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An example of the Medis QCA angiography imaging derived fractional flow reserve (FFR) assessment. This technology removes the need for pressure wires and adenosine used in traditional FFR assessments of the coronary arteries.
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Quantitative Flow Ratio (QFR) Study Looks at Impact on Appropriateness of Revascularization in the PIONEER-IV Trial

July 22, 2021 — Medis Medical Imaging is partnering with CORRIB Core Lab and Sinomed in randomized clinical trial of ...

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An example of Viz.AI's pulmonary embolism AI application and mobile alert to the physician on-call. Viz.AI and Avicenna.AI Partner to Launch Artificial Intelligence Care Coordination for Pulmonary Embolism and Aortic Disease
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Viz.AI and Avicenna.AI Partner to Launch Artificial Intelligence Care Coordination for Pulmonary Embolism and Aortic Disease

July 21, 2021 — Artificial intelligence (AI) medical imaging vendors Viz.AI and Avicenna.AI have partnered to enable ...

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A live, 3-D intra-cardiac echo (ICE) ultrasound image from inside the atrium of the heart taken during the first cryoablation EP procedure performed using the technology at Northwestern Medicine. The new Philips Healthcare VeriSight Pro ICE catheter offers superior 2-D and 3-D live image guidance for a wide range of procedures in structural heart disease and electrophysiology (EP), allowing interventionalists to navigate procedures.
Feature | Ultrasound Intra-cardiac Echo (ICE)
Northwestern Medicine First in U.S. to Use Live 3D Intracardiac Echo for EP Procedure

July 21, 2021 — Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute recently became the first cardiovascular program in ...

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A new study with data from more than 10,000 COVID patients confirmed that patients taking statin medications had a 41 percent lower risk of in-hospital death from COVID-19.
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Large Study Confirms Statins Reduce COVID-19 Severity

July 21, 2021 — In a new study from University of California San Diego School of Medicine, researchers have confirmed ...

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ICE image showing the inside of the heart. Mayo Clinic recently became the first to use the next-generation Philips 4-D intracardiac echo imaging catheter. ICE is seeing increased use in structural heart procedures.
News | Ultrasound Intra-cardiac Echo (ICE)
Mayo Clinic First to Use Next Generation 4D ICE System to Guide Structural Heart Procedures

July 16, 2021 — Mayo Clinic recently became the first to use a next-generation 4-D intracardiac echo (ICE) imaging ...

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The Clear AI software can help with identification coronary plaque features in CT scans that may cause heart attacks. Cleerly Coronary’s noninvasive, AI-driven approach supports the understanding of plaques using FDA-cleared technologies.
News | Computed Tomography (CT)
Canon Medical Partners with Cleerly to Tackle Heart Disease, the Leading Cause of Death

July 16, 2021 — Canon Medical Systems USA is joining forces with Cleerly in a strategic partnership to support simple ...

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Videos | Stethoscopes
VIDEO: Use of a Digital Stethoscope in Cardiac Care

Nelson B. Schiller, M.D., FACC, professor of medicine and the John J. Sampson and Lucy Stearn Endowed Chair of ...

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New trial results from the international RAPID Trial show that administering a full dose of a standard blood thinner early to moderately ill hospitalized patients with COVID-19 could halt the thrombo-inflammation process and reduce the risk of severe disease and death. How to anticoagulate COVID patients. How to prevent thrombus in COVID patients.
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Study Supports Early Anticoagulant Treatment to Reduce Death in Moderately Ill COVID-19 Patients

July 15, 2021 — COVID-19 is marked by heightened inflammation and abnormal clotting in the blood vessels, particularly ...

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An example of HeartFlow's FFR-CT analysis of blockage severity in a patient's coronary vessels based on a cardiac CT scan.
News | FFR Technologies
HeartFlow Becomes Publicly Traded Company in Merger With Longview Acquisition Corp.

July 15, 2021 — HeartFlow, which has commercialized noninvasive computed tomography derived fractional flow reserve (FFR ...

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Diluting of a blood sample for real-time deformability cytometry testing. Researchers at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin in Erlangen. Germany, were able to show for the first time COVID-19 significantly changes the size and stiffness of red and white blood cells, sometimes over months. From the study How a COVID-19 Infection Changes Blood Cells in the Long Run. Reasons for long COVID.
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
COVID-19 Changes Properties Blood Cells 

July 15, 2021 — Using real-time deformability cytometry, researchers at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin in ...

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Leveraging Vivasure Medical’s PerQseal vascular closure device technology, PerQseal Blue consists of an intravascular patch designed to seal the vessel from the inside, returning the vein to its natural state after it dissolves over time, so no foreign bodies are left behind.
News | Vascular Closure Devices
Vivasure Medical is Developing a Sutureless Venous Closure Device for Transcatheter Valve Procedures

July 15, 2021 — Vivasure Medical announced its development program for PerQseal Blue, a sutureless and fully ...

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