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Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) is a magazine that reaches more than 25,000 healthcare professionals in cardiology, interventional cardiology and cath labs across the United States. These influential buying team members rely on DAIC's award-winning editorial content and comparison charts as a unique research tool for specifying, recommending and approving technology/device purchases.

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been the target of threats over his suggestions on how to contain the spread of coronavirus in the U.S. Photo by Jonathan Wyett, U.S. Department of State

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

American Heart Association Denounces Threats to Public Health Leaders Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

July 7, 2020 — In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials worldwide are working tirelessly to ...

July 07, 2020

Three of the most popular cardiovascular technologies to make news in June 2020. Top is the Impella Expandable Cardiac Pump (ECP) that is about to enter U.S. feasibility trials.Bottom left, the Foldax heart valve uses a flexible man-made material for valve leaflets rather than animal pericardium tissue. The hope is this new type of surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVR) device will enhance longevity of the valve leaflets. Bottom right, the SMT Hydra TAVR valve is the first Indian-made s

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July 6, 2020 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) magaz ...

July 06, 2020

The U.S. trial for CE-marked CBSO is designed to enroll up to 250 patients in a staged study approach

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

Carag Receives U.S. FDA IDE Approval to Conduct Clinical Study of First Transcatheter Septal Occluder

July 1, 2020 — Carag AG announced receiving U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Investigational Device Exemption ...

July 01, 2020

Thoracic findings in a 15-year-old girl with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). (a) Chest radiograph on admission shows mild perihilar bronchial wall cuffing. (b) Chest radiograph on the third day of admission demonstrates extensive airspace opacification with a mid and lower zone predominance. (c, d) Contrast-enhanced axial CT chest of the thorax at day 3 shows areas of ground-glass opacification (GGO) and dense airspace consolidation with air bronchograms. (c) This conformed to a mosai

Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

New Study Looks at Post-COVID-19 Emerging Disease in Children

In recent weeks, a multisystem hyperinflammatory condition has emerged in children in association with prior exposure or ...

June 30, 2020

Clive Svendsen, Ph.D., director of the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, at work in his laboratory. Photo by Cedars-Sinai.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19: Study Shows Virus Can Infect Heart Cells in Lab Dish

June 30, 2020 — A new study shows that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus), can infect heart cells ...

June 30, 2020

BioCardia Announces CardiAMP Heart Failure Pivotal Trial Continues with First Patient Randomized in COVID-19 Era

News | Heart Failure

BioCardia Resumes Cases in the CardiAMP Heart Failure Trial

June 30, 2020 — BioCardia, Inc. announced that the company has resumed cases in the CardiAMP Heart Failure Trial. The ...

June 30, 2020

The Medtronic Symplicity Spyral renal denervation catheter in the renal artery, showing how its four electrodes contact the vessel wall for a single RF energy delivery procedure. By ablating the vessel walls, it props the vessel in a fully open position, allowing the kidneys to better filter the blood and remove excess water in hypertension patients. RDN

News | Renal Denervation

Simplicity Renal Denervation Lowered Blood Pressure Out to 3 Years

June 26, 2020 – New data from the Global SYMPLICITY Registry (GSR) showed that renal denervation (RDN) with the ...

June 26, 2020

The Foldax Tria surgical valve reimagines the heart valve by incorporating a new, proprietary biopolymer, what the vendor calls LifePolymer, with an innovative valve design intended to eliminate calcification, withstand stresses and strains without failure, and restore patient quality of life without lifelong use of anticoagulants. Tria is also the first heart valve to be robotically manufactured, reducing variability, enabling high precision, repeatability and better quality control.

News | Heart Valve Technology

Foldax Gets $20 Million to Finance Innovative Heart Valve Technology

June 23, 2020 – Heart valve start-up Foldax is looking to reinventing several aspects of the prosthetic heart valve ...

June 23, 2020

Bystanders using a Philips HeartStart AED for a patient in sudden cardiac arrest.

News | Defibrillator Monitors

FDA Grants Premarket Clearance for Philips HeartStart FR3 and HeartStart FRx Automated Defibrillators

June 23, 2020 — Philips announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval (PMA) for ...

June 23, 2020

Navin Kapur, M.D., Tufts Medical Center, shows preCardia device and its anatomical positioning in the patient to treat heart failure..

News | Heart Failure

FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Designation for preCardia Catheter-based Heart Failure Treatment

June 23, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Program status for the ...

June 23, 2020

Signs for "Heroes work here" outside healthcare facilities and even the homes of clinicians have popped up across the country. This photo shows healthcare workers at the Lenox Health emergency room entrance being greeted to cheers and thanks for their essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City at a public thank you event May 21, 2020. #COVID19 #SARScov2 #pandemic #LenoxHill

Blog | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Cardiology Stands Up to the COVID-19 Challenge

Prior to January 2020 when clinicians read about the history of the 1918 flu, and epidemiologists predicted we were ...

June 22, 2020

News | Heart Valve Technology

SMT Enters Structural Heart Market With Acquisition of Vascular Concepts

June 19, 2020 — SMT (Sahajanand Medical Technologies Pvt. Ltd) said it acquired of the structural heart medical device ...

June 19, 2020

The FDA has determined chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are not effective at treating novel coronavirus and revoked its earlier emergency use authorization (EUA) for the drugs to be used in COVID-19 patients. FDA says hydroxychloroquine does not work to treat COVID-19.Getty Images #COVID19 #COVID19update #SARSCoV2

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

FDA Revokes Emergency Use Authorization for Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19

June 15, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) that ...

June 15, 2020

Videos | Heart Valve Technology

VIDEO: Explaining Bicupid Aortic Valves

Jay Mohan, D.O., RPVI, interventional cardiology fellow at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, created this ...

June 10, 2020

The temporary COVID-19 hospital at the McCormick Place convention center in Chicago being toured by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker April 3. The hospitals beds are set up in at least two of the expo halls, included two used the for annual RSNA radiology meeting in November each year. Photo by Susan Blair, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District

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

Cardiology Meetings Continue to be Cancelled or Go Virtual Due to COVID-19

(UPDATED information added to this article June 10, 2020)

April 28, 2020 — Medical conferences are where the latest ...

April 28, 2020