The Lutonix Drug-Coated Balloon (DCB) showed statistically significant safety equivalence with a standard percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) catheter for the treatment of narrowed or obstructed arteries below the knee in recent trial results. The data were presented at the Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) 2018 annual conference, Nov. 5-8 in Las Vegas.

November 6, 2018 – Initial results from the real-world EMPagliflozin compaRative effectIveness and SafEty (EMPRISE) ...

4Tech Inc. initiated its U.S. Early Feasibility Study of the TriCinich Coil System following U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, with the first two implantations at Piedmont Heart Hospital in Atlanta. The implantations were conducted by Christopher Meduri, M.D., Vivek Rajagopal, M.D., and Mani Vannan, M.D. The study will evaluate the TriCinch Coil System in 15 patients across seven centers in the U.S.

November 5, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is evaluating recent reports of Getinge's Maquet ...

Hospitals that routinely perform a heart valve replacement procedure requiring open heart surgery are more likely to adopt a newer, less invasive technique, according to a new study, published Oct. 31 in JAMA Cardiology from Weill Cornell Medicine. When hospitals have a high caseload of both, they are likely to achieve the best patient outcomes for those who undergo the newer procedure.

A vaccine may one day be able to replace oral blood thinners to reduce the risk of secondary strokes caused by blood clots, without increasing the risk of serious bleeding or triggering an autoimmune response. These conclusions are drawn from new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension.