Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology

Medtronic Inc. is recalling its HawkOne Directional Atherectomy System product due to the risk of the guidewire within the catheter moving downward or prolapsing when force is applied during use.

Medtronic Recalls HawkOne Atherectomy System Due to Risk of Tip Damage During Use

January, 24, 2022 — Medtronic Inc. is recalling its HawkOne Directional Atherectomy System product due to the risk of ...

January 24, 2022

The cardiovascular effects of long-hauler COVID in 2022

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

What We Know About Cardiac Long-COVID Two Years Into the Pandemic

By the end of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a clear sign that some virus patients had longer ...

January 23, 2022

Example of life-like 3D printed cardiac and aortic anatomy available from Materialise. The vendor's software is FDA-cleared for use to print anatomy from CT or MRI studies that will be the exact size as the patient's actual anatomy. This can be used for planning and practicing complex surgical or interventional procedures and the model can aid navigation during procedures.

Gallery | Cardiac Imaging | By Dave Fornell, DAIC Editor

Photo Gallery of Cardiovascular Technology on Display at RSNA 2021

The gallery includes photos of medical imaging technologies from across the expo floor at the Radiological Society of ...

January 21, 2022

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Feature | Information Technology

SPONSORED CONTENT: Unveiling the Future of Cardiovascular Workflow

Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...

March 21, 2024

Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

VIDEO: Long-term Cardiac Impacts of COVID-19 Two Years Into The Pandemic

Aaron Baggish, M.D., director of the cardiovascular performance program, Mass General Hospital, has been involved in the ...

January 20, 2022

Arineta created a dedicated cardiac CT scanner in partnership with GE Healthcare a couple years ago. With increased interest in CTA with the new chest pain guidelines, the company decided to also start direct sales of these systems for the first time at RSNA in their own booth. Photos by Dave Fornell

Feature | RSNA | By Dave Fornell, DAIC Editor

6 Takeaways in Cardiac and Vascular Imaging at RSNA 2021

Here are a few of the key takeaways on the new technologies that will impact cardiovascular and interventional medicine ...

January 19, 2022

New study finds children treated for MIS-C had normal heart function within three months after their first symptoms

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Heart Function Recovers Quickly in Children With COVID-19 Related MIS-C

January 19, 2022 — Heart function recovery returned within three months in children who developed COVID-19 related multi ...

January 19, 2022

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Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability to diagnose cardiac disease with greater accuracy and precision

Feature | Cardiac Imaging

SPONSORED CONTENT: Finding the Right Solution

Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...

March 05, 2024

Videos | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

VIDEO: New MRI Safer to Scan Patients With Cardiac Implantable Devices

Orlando Simonetti, Ph.D., professor, cardiovascular medicine, worked with Siemens to help develop a new, lower-field ...

January 18, 2022

The Cardiovalve transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) technology for patients suffering from mitral or tricuspid regurgitation (MR and TR), is undergoing clinical trials in Europe.

News | Structural Heart

Technology Incubator Peregrine Ventures Exits Transcatheter Valve Company Cardiovalve

January 18, 2022 — Peregrine Ventures, a leading investment firm dedicated to supporting life changing healthcare ...

January 18, 2022

Change Healthcare sponsored webinar about cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) user experience in structured reporting.

Case Study | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

Emphasizing User Experience in the Adoption of Structured Reporting

Health systems are recognizing that aggregated cardiac imaging data is an asset rather than a liability. Disparate ...

January 18, 2022

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BLOG: Combining Local Impedance with Contact Force to Perform RF Ablation

When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...

December 11, 2023

Cydar EV Maps assists in the planning, real-time guidance, and post-procedure review of endovascular surgery. It brings cloud-based AI and computer vision to mobile surgery, enabling reductions in radiation exposure, fluoroscopy time, and procedure time.

News | Cath Lab Navigation Aids

Endovascular 3D Image Guidance Added to Philips Zenition Mobile C-arm

January 18, 2022 – Philips Healthcare announced physicians will now have access to advanced new 3D image guidance ...

January 18, 2022

Photo from the first procedure to transplant a porcine heart into a human Jan. 7, 2022, at the University of Maryland Medical Center. All photos from the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Blog | Heart Failure

Pig Hearts Might Save the Bacon of Many Heart Failure Patients

After 15 years of covering new cardiovascular technologies, it is not often that something comes across my email, or I ...

January 17, 2022

The Endologix PQ Bypass System is a percutaneous femoral-popliteal bypass system that enables a minimally invasive, catheter-based procedure to put a graft in a patient's femoral vein to bypass blockages in the SFA.

News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

First-of-its-Kind Outpatient Transcatheter Leg Artery Bypass Procedure Performed

January 17, 2022 – The Vascular Care Group (TVCG) announced Stephen J. Hoenig M.D., successfully completed a ...

January 17, 2022

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Case Study | Hemodynamic Monitoring Systems

TECH BRIEF — Integrated Hemodynamic Monitoring System Helps Improve Lab Performance, Efficiency

Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...

November 14, 2023

The ASE released new guidelines for pre-procedural structural heart echo imaging assessments. This image showing the aortic and mitral valves in life-like TrueView rendering is from a Philips Epiq CV version 9.0 system.

News | Structural Heart

New ASE Guideline Outlines Acquisition of Essential Transesophaegal Echo Images in Structural Heart Prior to Intervention

January 17, 2022 – As the increasing number of structural heart interventions are assisted by real-time imaging guidance ...

January 17, 2022

The Affera Inc. Sphere-9 pulsed field (PF) energy radiofrequency ablation system. Medtronic purchased the company in January 2022.

News | EP Lab

Medtronic to Acquire Affera to Expand Cardiac Ablation Portfolio

January 14, 2022 — Medtronic has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Affera Inc., a Boston area-based ...

January 14, 2022

$A new treatment to achieve return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in refractory cardiac arrest patients is the use of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA). The images show the balloon seen deployed on an angiogram and an illustration showing its placement in the aorta.$

Feature | Sudden Cardiac Arrest | By Adam Power, M.D.

Will Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta Move the Needle on Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Mortality?

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) continues to be overwhelmingly fatal despite cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) ...

January 14, 2022