Acutus Medical announced 12-month data from the UNCOVER-AF trial investigating the use of the AcQMap advanced cardiac imaging and mapping visualization system in persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation procedures. Results presented at the 24th Annual AF Symposium, Jan. 24-26 in Boston, show the use of AcQMap resulted in 72.5 percent single-procedure freedom from AF at 12 months. Rigorous post-ablation monitoring showed 89.6 percent of the single-procedure patients experienced zero episodes of AF.

Lenox Hill Hospital is the first hospital in New York City to successfully implant Abbott’s Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system to replace a leaky heart valve. The procedure was performed as part of a national clinical trial testing the safety and efficacy of the device as an alternative to invasive open heart surgery.

January 25, 2019 — Siemens Healthineers presented its first intelligent software assistant for radiology, the AI-Rad ...

Researchers have identified another reason to limit red meat consumption: high levels of a gut-generated chemical called trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) that is also linked to heart disease. Scientists found that people who eat a diet rich in red meat have triple the TMAO levels of those who eat a diet rich in either white meat or mostly plant-based proteins, but discontinuation of red meat eventually lowers those TMAO levels.

The rise cardiovascular disease has been instrumental in fueling the coronary stent market share in the past few years ...