Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

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

A key slide from Elnabawi's presentation, showing cardiac CT plaque evaluations, showing the impact of psoriasis medication on coronary plaques at baseline and one year of treatment. It shows a reversal of vulnerable plaque development. #SCAI, #SCAI2018

Feature | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

Psoriasis Therapy Can Reduce Coronary Plaque

May 14, 2018 – New clinical evidance shows common therapy options for psoriasis (PSO), a chronic inflammatory skin ...

May 14, 2018

A 3-D printed aortic root with an simulated implant of an Edwards Sapien TAVR valve. New clinical data points to length-of-stay as a new predictor of outcomes in TAVR patients. Image from Henry Ford Hospital.

Feature | Heart Valve Technology

Length of Stay Impacts TAVR Outcomes

May 14, 2018 – A new study finds patients who stay in the hospital for more than 72 hours when undergoing trans-femoral ...

May 14, 2018

The Medtronic Endeavor drug-eluting stent was used in the PERSPECTIVE trial to test its durability in chronic total occlusions (CTOs). #SCAI, #SCAI2018

News | Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO)

Treating CTOs With Zotarolimus-eluting Stents Shows Good Long-term Results

May 14, 2018 – One-year outcomes of patients undergoing chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention ...

May 14, 2018

PROGRESS-CTO flow chart for the hybrid algorithm. #SCAI, #SCAI2018

News | Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO)

International Registry Shows Good Outcomes in Treating Chronic Total Occlusions (CTOs)

May 14, 2018 — A significant update to the PROGRESS-CTO (PROspective Global Registry for the Study of Chronic Total ...

May 14, 2018

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

Intravenous Drug Use is Causing Rise in Heart Valve Infections, Healthcare Costs

May 14, 2018 — The opioid drug epidemic is impacting cardiology, with a new study finding the number of patients ...

May 14, 2018

Richard Schatz, M.D., (center) is research director of cardiovascular interventions at the Heart, Lung, and Vascular Center at Scripps Clinic, speaking at a SCAI session on collaboration with industry to bring new device technologies to market. He is best known as the co-inventor of the first coronary stent, the Palmaz-Schatz stent. Left is Ziyad Hijazi, M.D., MPH, director of the Sidra Cardiac Program. #SCAI, #SCAI2018

Feature | SCAI

SCAI 2018 Late-breaking Clinical Trials

Here is an aggregation of all the news and late-breaking studies presented at the 2018 Society for Cardiovascular ...

May 14, 2018

News | Heart Failure

Ancora Heart Expands AccuCinch U.S. Early Feasibility Study Enrollment

May 14, 2018 — Ancora Heart Inc. announced the expansion of the company’s U.S. feasibility study to evaluate the ...

May 14, 2018

News | Heart Valve Technology

First-Ever Risk Tool Helps Predict TAVR Readmission Rates

May 11, 2018 — A new study looked at the effectiveness of a novel risk tool to predict 30-day readmission rates in ...

May 11, 2018

Novel Way to Treat Blood Clots in Lungs, pulmonary embolism, Found Safe and Effective. #SCAI, #SCAI2018

News | Pulmonary Embolism

Novel Way to Treat Blood Clots in Lungs Found Safe and Effective

May 11, 2018 — Results of the FlowTriever Pulmonary Embolectomy (FLARE) study were presented as late-breaking clinical ...

May 11, 2018

News | Heart Valve Technology

Medtronic Shares Two-Year Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Results

May 11, 2018 — Medtronic plc announced two-year outcomes for the Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV) from its ea ...

May 11, 2018

News | Atrial Fibrillation

New Combined Risk Score More Effectively Predicts Stroke Risk in AFib Patients

May 11, 2018 — A new study finds that integrating two separate clinical risk score models more accurately helps ...

May 11, 2018

News | Vascular Closure Devices

Cardiva Medical Announces Completion of the AMBULATE Pivotal Trial

May 10, 2018 — Cardiva Medical Inc. announced the completion of the AMBULATE pivotal trial, one of several clinical ...

May 10, 2018

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Imricor MRI-Guided Cardiac Ablation Study Results to Be Presented at HRS 2018

May 10, 2018 — Results from the clinical study to evaluate Imricor’s Vision-MR Ablation Catheter for the treatment of ...

May 10, 2018

News | ECG Monitoring Services

Online ECG Monitoring Detects Paroxysmal AFib More Effectively Than Holter, Patch Methods

May 9, 2018 – Medicalgorithmics S.A. will present the results of a large study evaluating online versus offline electroc ...

May 09, 2018

News | Heart Valve Technology

Colibri Heart Valve Continues Enrollment in TAVI Early Feasibility Study

May 7, 2018 — Colibri Heart Valve LLC announced the Colibri transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) System has ...

May 07, 2018