Research shows that patients have better outcomes when they are treated at an accredited center, such as the Hypertension Center in the Smidt Heart Institute, by physicians specialized in the disease. Photo by Getty.
News | Hypertension
Smidt Heart Institute’s Hypertension Center Earns Accreditation

July 25, 2023 — The Hypertension Center in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has earned accreditation from the ...

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A multi-institutional team of scientists led by Dr. Mario Gaudino, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery and assistant dean for clinical trials at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been approved for a nearly $30 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies
Large PCORI Award Funds Study of Surgical Options for Coronary Artery Disease in Underrepresented Patient Populations

July 25, 2023 — A multi-institutional team of scientists led by Dr. Mario Gaudino, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss ...

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With Only 21 Facilities Achieving this Award Nationally, AGH Ranks Among the Most Elite Mitral Valve Programs in the Country and Only Designated Center in Pennsylvania
News | Heart Valve Technology
Allegheny General Hospital Receives Recognition as a Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center from the American Heart Association and the Mitral Foundation

July 24, 2023 — Allegheny General Hospital (AGH), the flagship academic medical center of Allegheny Health Network (AHN) ...

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BioCardia, Inc., a developer of cellular and cell-derived therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, announced that the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) has completed its prespecified data review for the ongoing Phase III pivotal CardiAMP Cell Therapy Heart Failure Trial
News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies
BioCardia Announces DSMB Recommendation to Pause New Enrollment in Phase III Pivotal CardiAMP Cell Therapy Heart Failure Trial While Additional Blinded Data is Collected

July 24, 2023 — BioCardia, Inc., a developer of cellular and cell-derived therapeutics for the treatment of ...

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SmartfIRE study is evaluating THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH SF Dual Energy Catheter’s potential to enable safe and simple procedures with the ability to deliver both radiofrequency (RF) and pulsed field ablation (PFA)
News | Atrial Fibrillation
Biosense Webster Completes Enrollment in Pivotal Trial Evaluating PFA and RF Dual Energy Catheter for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation in Europe

July 21, 2023 — Biosense Webster, Inc., a global leader in cardiac arrhythmia treatment and part of Johnson & Johnson ...

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Pilot study will assess positive impacts of real-time safety monitoring on patient outcomes and treatment experience
News | Remote Monitoring
AliveCor and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Partner to Evaluate KardiaMobile 6L for QT Prolongation Screening in Patients Treated for Opioid Use Disorder

July 21, 2023 — AliveCor, a leading innovator in FDA-cleared personal electrocardiogram (ECG) technology, today ...

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Pilot study will assess positive impacts of real-time safety monitoring on patient outcomes and treatment experience
News | Structural Heart
Onecrea Medical Announces the Successful Completion of the First-in-human Implants of its Crea Aortic Valve

July 21, 2023 — Onecrea Medical has announced the success of the first-in-human implants of its Transcatheter Aortic ...

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The ACC Board of Trustees (BOT) has approved the College's newest officers and trustees who will assume their roles in April 2024 following ACC.24 in Atlanta, Ga.
News | ACC
ACC Announces New 2024 Officers, Trustees

July 20, 2023 — The ACC Board of Trustees (BOT) has approved the College's newest officers and trustees who will assume ...

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Bicêtre Hospital in Paris, France, and Baptist Stroke & Cerebrovascular Center in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, join global network of leading stroke centers as part of WE-TRUST multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the potential benefits of a Direct to Angio Suite treatment pathway for stroke patients
News | Stroke
First Patients in France and the USA Enrolled in Global WE-TRUST Trial to Accelerate Stroke Diagnosis and Treatment

July 20, 2023 — The first patients in France and the USA have been enrolled into the large-scale WE-TRUST* multicenter ...

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A new expert consensus from the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) offers clinical protocol for cardiovascular computed tomography (CCT) to guide intervention in the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD).
News | Computed Tomography (CT)
Optimal CHD Patient Care Requires Interventional, Surgical Collaboration

July 20, 2023 — A new expert consensus from the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) offers clinical ...

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Feature | SCCT | Christine Book
Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) Sets Stage for 18th Annual Scientific Meeting, SCCT 2023

July 20, 2023 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) is preparing for its 18th Annual Scientific ...

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The future is quite promising for TAHs, but it will be a decade or more before they may become a comparable treatment to heart transplantation
Feature | Artificial Heart | By Francisco Arabia, MD, MBA
Next-Generation Total Artificial Hearts Offer New Hope for Heart Failure Patients

The U.S. organ donation system has long been under scrutiny, with questions about fairness in organ allocation and ...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Letter to Health Care Providers recommending that health care providers, laboratory personnel, and facilities stop using the Quidel Triage Cardiac Panel, manufactured by Quidel Cardiovascular Inc. (QuidelOrtho), and use an alternative method, or an alternate local testing site if available.
News | Heart Failure
FDA Issues Letter to Healthcare Providers on Using Alternative Testing Method for Quidel Triage Cardiac Pane

July 19, 2023 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recommending health care providers, laboratory personnel ...

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The proposed approach outperforms other neural network architectures by leveraging rich geometric information to segment brain stroke lesion images
News | Stroke
New Geometric Deep Learning Model for Detecting Stroke Lesions

July 19, 2023 — Ischemic stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked by a clot, is among the ...

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EU Physicians have successfully treated the first patients using the combined benefits of Abbott’s Ensite X Mapping System and Stereotaxis’ Robotic Magnetic Navigation System
News | Robotic Systems
Stereotaxis and Abbott Combine Technologies in First Integrated Procedures to Treat Arrhythmia Patients

July 19, 2023 — Stereotaxis, a pioneer and global leader in surgical robotics for minimally invasive endovascular ...

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