Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

This channel includes news and new technology innovations from cardiovascular clinical trials. These clinical studies include all cardiac subspecialties.

Left, the Melody pulmonary valve was the first transcatheter valve to be approved by the FDA in the United States a decade ago. Right, the Harmony transcatheter valve is in trials and is designed to treat patients with RVOT anomalies who develop severe PR typically when a pervious repair fails. Both valves are used to treat congenital heart defects. #SCAI #SCAI2020

News | Congenital Heart

Medtronic Congenital Heart Transcatheter Valve Studies Show Strong Results in SCAI Late-breakers

May 21, 2020 — Two late-breaking clinical trials on trans catheter valves to treat congenital heart disease were ...

May 21, 2020

Rash on the skin of a child who has COVID-19 related multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). Image copyright Damien Bonnet, M.D., Ph.D., courtesy of the American Heart Association. Coronavirus is linked with this Kawasaki-like inflammatory disease in children. #MIS-C #COVID #COVIDinkids #COVIDinChildren

Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Dave Fornell, Editor

Kawasaki-like Inflammatory Disease Affects Children With COVID-19

A new, serious COVID-19 cardiovascular presentation emerged in late April and early May 2020 in the form of pediatric ...

May 20, 2020

PREDICT-AF trial showed first time there is extensive extracellular matrix remodeling. #HRS2020 #Heartrhythm2020. Marilyn Fornell

News | Atrial Fibrillation

Heart Tissue Changes Can Predict Atrial Fibrillation Prior to Onset

May 19, 2020 — Structural changes of the atrium may occur long before the onset of atrial fibrillation (AF), and the ...

May 19, 2020

Results of the Atrial Fibrosis Predicts Recurrent Stroke Or New Atrial Fibrillation In Patients With Embolic Stroke Of Undetermined Source - A Multi-Center Study at HRS 2020. #HRS2020 #Heartrhythm2020,

News | Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial Fibrosis Predicts Recurrent Stroke or New AF Onset

May 19, 2020 — Atrial disease has been implicated in embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) and a late-breaking ...

May 19, 2020

Mayo Clinic is using artificial intelligence EchoGo Core software from Ultromics to automatically analyize echocardiography images to assess the cardiac impact of COVID-19. The AI software is from Ultromics.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Mayo Clinic Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help Assess Cardiac Danger From COVID-19

May 19, 2020 — A joint U.K.-U.S. research team is applying a pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) system to ...

May 19, 2020

Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization are traditionally instructed to follow nothing by mouth, or nil per os (NPO), as there are no current standardized fasting protocols, but the CHOWNOW study found patients do not need to fast and will have similar outcomes. #SCAI2020

Feature | Cath Lab

Eating Prior to Cardiac Cath Noninferior to Fasting in CHOW NOW Study

May 18, 2020 – Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization are traditionally instructed to follow nothing by mouth, or ...

May 18, 2020

News | SCAI

ISCHEMIA Trial: Patients With Intermediate Left Main Coronary Disease Have Worse Cardiovascular Events

May 17, 2020 – A new study shows that when compared with patients without intermediate left main coronary artery disease ...

May 17, 2020

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Stem Cell Therapy Improved Quality of Life in Patients with Microvascular Dysfunction

May 17, 2020 – Trial results presented today revealed a promising therapy for patients experiencing angina due to ...

May 17, 2020

Icosapent Ethyl (Vascepa) significantly Reduces Revascularizations in Statin Patients in the REDUCE-IT REVASC analyses presented as a late-breaking study at SCAI 2020. Photo by Dave Fornell

News | Pharmaceuticals

Icosapent Ethyl Significantly Reduces Revascularizations in Statin Patients

May 17, 2020 – Patients with high lipid levels have an increased risk for ischemic events, despite statin therapy ...

May 17, 2020

The Boston Scientific Synergy stent uses a unique abluminal, bioresorbable drug-carrier polymer that dissolves after the vessel wall has healed months after the stent is implanted. Stent polymers have been implicated in cases of late-stent thrombosis, which required patients with DES to stay on dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT). This study looked at using the device as a way to shorten DAPT duration. #SCAI2020

News | Stents

TWILIGHT Trial Substudy Examines Bioabsorbable Polymer vs. Durable Polymer Drug-Eluting Stents in High-Risk PCI

May 17, 2020 – A new study sought to reveal whether drug-eluting stents (DES) coated with bioabsorbable polymer (BP) ...

May 17, 2020

The protocol chart for the LATIN STEMI telecardiology program.

News | Telecardiology

Telemedicine-based Network Offers Remote Guidance to 100 Million STEMI Patients

May 15, 2020 – A groundbreaking trial recently examined the viability of telemedicine for remote guidance of a ...

May 15, 2020

An OCT intracoronary image showing instent restenosis. The white spots in the vessel wall casting shadows are the stent struts. OCT image data might be used in the future to assess FFR to determine the severity of lesions and determine if they need to be stented.

News | FFR Technologies

OCT May be Able to Show FFR Without Need for Pressurewire

May 15, 2020 – A late-breaking study aimed to evaluate whether optical coherence tomography (OCT) can predict fractional ...

May 15, 2020

HRS presentations included BlueSync Evaluation study for Medtronic MyCareLink Heart mobile app and Micra TPS CED Study

News | EP Lab

EP Trials Show Positive Results for Advanced Remote Monitoring and Micra Transcatheter Pacing

May 14, 2020 – Medtronic announced results from late-breaking clinical trials evaluating the MyCareLink Heart mobile app ...

May 14, 2020

Left bundle branch (LBBP) activation imaging shown using wall motion color codes on echo imaging from Canon. #HRS2020 #heartrhythm2020

News | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices (CRT)

Left Bundle Branch Pacing is Feasible as a Novel Strategy For Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

May 13, 2020 — Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using biventricular pacing (BVP) or His bundle pacing (HBP) is ...

May 13, 2020

News | Atrial Fibrillation

Contact Force Sensing Catheter Improved Outcomes in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

May 13, 2020 — The PRECEPT study testing the use of the Biosense Webster Thermocool Smarttouch SF Catheter for the ...

May 13, 2020