October 2, 2017 — Boston Scientific announced a definitive agreement to acquire Apama Medical Inc., a privately-held ...
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September 29, 2017 — TherOx Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the premarket ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
Avinger Inc. recently announced Conformité Européenne (CE) Marking approval for treating in-stent restenosis with the Pantheris Lumivascular atherectomy system.
September 28, 2017 — New research revealed that on average, more than 75 percent of people aged 65 and older worldwide ...
Farouc Jaffer, M.D., Ph.D., director of coronary interventions at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the newest ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
September 28, 2017 — The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation’s Connections for Cardiovascular Health (CCH) program is ...
Abiomed Inc. recently received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pre-market approval (PMA) for the Impella RP heart pump. Culminating from five years of research, this approval follows the prior FDA Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) received in January 2015 and adds the Impella RP heart pump to Abiomed's platform of PMA-approved devices.
September 27, 2017 — Boston Scientific recently launched the Resonate family of implantable cardioverter defibrillator ...
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
Toshiba Medical announced it will highlight several of its latest vascular and interventional imaging solutions at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Nov. 26-Dec. 1 in Chicago.
Spectranetics is recalling its Bridge Occlusion Balloon Catheter due to the possibility of a blocked guidewire lumen in some device units. If a device with a blocked guidewire lumen were to be used during the procedure, the device would not be positioned correctly and hemorrhage would not be controlled. This would delay life-saving treatment, which may result in immediate and serious adverse health consequences, including death.
BioCardia Inc. recently announced 12-month results from the Phase II TRIDENT clinical trial, conducted by the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and co-sponsored by the company. The results showed a positive safety profile for allogeneic, or donor cell-based, mesenchymal stem cells delivered with the company’s Helix transendocardial delivery system at 30 days. The study was concurrently published in Circulation Research and presented on the podium at the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Annual Scientific Meeting, Sept. 16-19 in Dallas. Results were presented by Victoria Florea, M.D., of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the University of Miami.
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
September 26, 2017 — The one-year results of the SENTRY clinical trial were presented by principal investigator Michael ...
Treatment of heart attack patients depends on their history of cancer, according to research published recently in European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care. The study in more than 35,000 heart attack patients found they were less likely to receive recommended drugs and interventions, and more likely to die in hospital if they had cancer than if they did not.
BioCardia Inc. announced the trial design for its pivotal Phase III CardiAMP Heart Failure Trial was presented during the “Heart Failure: The Big Target for CV Regenerative Therapy State of the Field” session at the Texas Heart Institute International Symposium on Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, Sept. 15-16 in Houston. As an invited faculty member for the meeting, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Florida and study co-national principal investigator Carl Pepine, M.D., presented the design.