Cardiovascular Surgery

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for cardiac surgery. This includes coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) and surgical valve replacements.

News | Heart Valve Technology

April 20, 2017 — Mitral regurgitation can occur in up to 50 percent of patients with ischemic heart disease and even ...

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News | Pharmaceuticals

March 28, 2017 — When used as a preventive measure during heart surgery, the heart failure drug levosimendan did not ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Michael Reardon, M.D., professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center ...

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Cardiogard embolic protection system for surgical valve reaplacement
Feature | Embolic Protection Devices

March 22, 2017 — Two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared embolic protection systems designed to remove ...

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Technology | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

March 22, 2017 — Aegis Medical Innovations Inc. announced that it has received Investigational Device Exemption approval ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell

March 17, 2017 - Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was found to be noninferior to surgical aortic valve ...

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Blog | HIMSS

Information technology (IT) is among the least sexy areas to cover in medical technology advances, and is often ...

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Videos | HIMSS

ITN Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most innovative new technology that was displayed on the expo floor ...

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News | Cardiovascular Surgery

February 16, 2017 — Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) cardiothoracic surgeons Cary Passik, M.D., and Robert ...

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heart team, hybird OR, structural heart team
Feature | Hybrid OR | Dave Fornell

In the current era of healthcare reform and the push toward evidence-based medicine to both lower costs and improve ...

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

February 9, 2017 — Janssen Research & Development LLC (Janssen) announced that the Phase 3 COMPASS trial is stopping ...

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News | Congenital Heart

January 25, 2017 — Survival statistics, surgeon-specific experience and complication rates are the types of information ...

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News | Structural Heart

January 25, 2017 — Elderly patients with aortic stenosis (AS) and medium surgical risk experienced better than expected ...

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EXCEL Trial, TCT 2016, drug-eluting stents, CABG, surgery left main heart disease, LMCAD
Feature | Stents | Dave Fornell

The biggest news from the 2016 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting this past fall was the results of ...

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bundled payments for cardiology, CMS cardiac reimbursements, healthcare reform, July 1 2017
Feature | Cardiovascular Business | Dave Fornell

Effective July 1, 2017 for Medicare heart attack patients, the the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will ...

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