Children’s hospitals in the United States delivering the highest-quality care for children undergoing heart surgery also appear to provide care most efficiently at a low cost, according to research led by the University of Michigan and presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Chicago.

Breathing secondhand marijuana smoke could damage heart and blood vessels as much as secondhand cigarette smoke, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2014.

Most patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) haven’t thought about device deactivation if they were to develop a serious illness from which they were not expected to recover.

New research from the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation has uncovered a way to help interventional cardiologists better predict which patients are at higher risk for death following TAVR, allowing both patient and surgeon to discuss a potentially different treatment plan.

Results from a new study indicate that the addition of mitral valve (MV) repair to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) did not result in significant benefit to the patient and was associated with increased risk of neurological events. Therefore, the routine addition of MV repair to CABG in patients with moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) did not demonstrate a clinically meaningful advantage.

Medi?Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC and MEDICALgorithmics will participate in a research project, investigating the impact of lifestyle modification on ablation outcome in atrial fibrillation (ISOLATE). The research is financed by Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Foundation. The PocketECG cardiac monitoring system will be used for collecting and analyzing the ECG data in the project

A new procedure to combat obesity was recently performed by physicians at Dayton Interventional Radiology.

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