Acist Medical Systems Inc. announced results from the ACIST-FFR Study demonstrating the consistent and correlative performance of the Navvus MicroCatheter compared to standard pressure wire systems. ACIST-FFR (Assessment of Catheter-based Interrogation and Standard Techniques for Fractional Flow Reserve measurement) is the largest multi-center study to compare microcatheter FFR to pressure wire FFR, as well as the only study to include multiple pressure wire comparators. The study was presented for the first time at EuroPCR 2017, May 16-19 in Paris, France.

BioVentrix Inc. recently announced the first clinical use of its closed-chest Revivent TC TransCatheter Ventricular Enhancement System at the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin in Germany. The Less Invasive Ventricular Enhancement (LIVE) procedure was performed by interventional cardiologist Christoph Klein, M.D., and cardiothoracic surgeon Felix Hennig, M.D., with important contributions from Sebastian Kelle, M.D., chief of cardiovascular imaging.

A Canadian cardiologist has published a report in the journal Eurointervention describing how he used a Canadian-invented device for the first time in the world to successfully insert a MitraClip through a patient's jugular vein rather than the femoral vein.

Early results from the independent, physician-sponsored FFR-Search Registry revealed an association between post-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurements with the Acist Navvus Rapid Exchange FFR MicroCatheter and clinical outcomes. The results reveal a potential new role for FFR in cath labs.

May 30, 2017 — Abbott recently announced European CE mark and first use of the new Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor ...

Statins are associated with improved heart structure and function, according to research presented at EuroCMR 2017, May 25-27 in Prague. The research team reported the benefits were above and beyond the cholesterol lowering effect of statins.

At the 2017 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), June 1-3 in Pittsburgh, Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. will showcase advanced specialty viewing capabilities of the Exa Enterprise Imaging platform. The platform facilitates the viewing of large medical imaging files, such as cardiac imaging and nuclear medicine, quickly and efficiently on existing workstations throughout the enterprise. With the Exa diagnostic quality Zero Footprint Universal Viewer, clinicians can view these images and more from any modality and any vendor. Exa delivers relevant priors from the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) or vendor neutral archive (VNA), including cardiovascular images, quickly and securely.