News | Cardiovascular Surgery

The risk of heart transplant rejection can be reduced by desensitizing patient antibodies, according to research presented at Heart Failure 2017 and the 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure, April 29-May 2 in Paris, France. The breakthrough came on the 50th anniversary of heart transplantation.

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Case Study | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

Located along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, Memorial Hospital at Gulfport is a nonprofit, 445-bed facility originally ...

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Videos | Pacemakers

Vivek Reddy, M.D., director of cardiac arrhythmia services and professor of medicine, cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital ...

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Videos | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices (CRT)

This video, provided by ERB, demonstrates the function and implantation of the WiSE CRT (Wireless Stimulation ...

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News | Heart Failure

Serelaxin failed to meet the primary endpoints of the phase 3 RELAX-AHF-2 trial, according to late-breaking results presented at Heart Failure 2017 and the 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure, April 29-May 2 in Paris, France.

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News | Mobile Devices

May 22, 2017 — Consumers are being warned about the accuracy of heart rate apps after a study found huge variability ...

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News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers

Lantheus Holdings Inc., parent company of Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc., and GE Healthcare announced the signing of a definitive license agreement for the continued Phase III development and worldwide commercialization of flurpiridaz F-18. Flurpiridaz F-18 is an investigational positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) agent that may improve the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common form of heart disease. The definitive agreement follows the signing of a term sheet previously announced in late February 2017.

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News | Balloon Catheter

May 22, 2017 — Abbott Vascular has initiated a voluntary recall of specific lots of three catheters due to 19 reports of ...

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News | Cath Lab

May 19, 2017 — TherOx Inc. announced that it completed enrollment in the IC-HOT (Evaluation of Intracoronary Hyperoxemic ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Nearly one-quarter of patients with a mechanical heart valve say it disturbs their sleep, according to research presented at EuroHeartCare 2017, May 18-20 in Jonkoping, Sweden.

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Videos | Atrial Fibrillation

Hugh Calkins, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FHRS, director of cardiac arrhythmia services and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins ...

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News | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)

May 12, 2017 – Results from the U.S. post-market approval study evaluating “real-world” patients implanted with the ...

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Videos | EP Lab

This video, provided by Spectranetics, demonstrates how to deploy the Bridge Occlusion Balloon used to seal accidental ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

May 17, 2017 – Clinical trial results from a first-in-human study evaluating the acute feasibility of an investigational ...

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Spectranetics Bridge Occlusion Balloon in the SVC
Feature | EP Lab | Dave Fornell

May 17, 2017 — A new intravenous occlusion balloon designed to seal any accidental tears in the superior vena cava (SVC) ...

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