News | Sudden Cardiac Arrest

A Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigator and his team have developed a new risk assessment tool that brings physicians closer to predicting who is most likely to suffer a sudden cardiac arrest.

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News | Congenital Heart

Heart health in children will be the focus of three closely synergistic research projects and an integrated multidisciplinary training program, that are newly funded by a $3.7 million four-year grant led by Bradley S. Marino, M.D., MPP, MSC. Marino is a pediatric cardiologist from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and professor of pediatrics and medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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News | Heart Failure

In a Canadian first, a medical team has implanted the wireless CardioMEMS HF device inside a heart failure patient. The device permits clinicians to monitor the patient’s cardiovascular status — virtually and in real time ‑ and proactively adjust treatment to prevent costly, potentially unnecessary hospitalization.

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Videos | Cardiovascular Business

Linda Gillam, M.D., MPH, FACC, FAHA, FASE, chair, cardiovascular medicine, Atlantic Health System, suggests how ...

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Sponsored Content | Videos | Angiography

Shimadzu Medical Systems highlighted new features of its Trinias Interventional X-ray line at the America College of ...

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News | Congenital Heart

A 12-year-old boy at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome, Italy, has become the world’s youngest patient to be bridged to a heart transplant with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart.

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Biosense webster multi-electrode balloon RF ablation catheter. The Biosense Webster multi-electrode balloon RF ablation catheter. Each electrode can have varied power settings to avoid damage to underlying tissues like the esophagus. 
Feature | EP Lab | Dave Fornell

Electrophysiology (EP) technology has been advancing rapidly the past few years with new ablation tools to improve atrial fibrillation (AF) treatments, miniaturized diagnostic monitoring systems, and new implantable rhythm management devices that are making procedures much less invasive.

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News | Cardiovascular Business

Senate Republicans led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) unveiled the discussion draft of their own bill Thursday to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as Obamacare, which overhauled and expanded health insurance coverage for millions of Americans.

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News | Cath Lab

June 22, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has identified Vascular Solutions’ recent recall of its ...

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News | Pacemakers

Pacemakers and other cardiac devices can help solve forensic cases, according to a study presented at the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) EUROPACE - CARDIOSTIM 2017 conference, June 18-21 in Vienna, Austria. Devices revealed the time and cause of death in some cases where autopsy failed to do so.

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News | Leads Implantable Devices

BioTrace Medical Inc. announced that the company’s Tempo Temporary Pacing Lead was featured in an oral presentation and two live cases during the Transcatheter Valve Therapies (TVT) 2017 conference, June 14-17 in Chicago. Tamim Nazif, M.D., director of clinical services of the Structural Heart and Valve Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, presented real-world experiences with the Tempo Lead from transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) cases.

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Mount Sinai Heart and BioImage-2 LLC recently announced the start of the BioImage-2 study investigating the progression of vascular atherosclerotic plaque in patients who previously participated in the BioImage study.

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Technology | Transesophageal Echo (TEE)

June 20, 2017 — Dutch medical device company Stroke2prevent BV recently announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug ...

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News | Hemodynamic Support Devices

June 20, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Maquet/Datascope is voluntarily performing a worldwide ...

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Bayer Arterion contrast media Injector used to administer medical imaging contrast for CT scans.
Feature | Contrast Media | Dave Fornell

Here are several updates in medical imaging contrast media agents. Two of the biggest news items were related to safety ...

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