Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology

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-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), according to new research published today ...
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, interventional echocardiography is being recognized as a subspecialty ...
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, privately held medical technology company. Affera designs and manufactures ...
$A new treatment to achieve return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in refractory cardiac arrest patients is the use of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA). The images show the balloon seen deployed on an angiogram and an illustration showing its placement in the aorta.$
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) and many other advances in pre-hospital care. It takes the lives of almost 350 ...

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 new the 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

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

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Patient applying a Cardiac Insight Cardea SOLO monitoring device at home. The remote, physician-prescribed and patient self-applied device is worn for a specified period of monitoring time and then returned to the physician office for report creation.

Feature | Atrial Fibrillation

Increasing Early Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Through Improved Short-Term Monitoring

Improved short-term monitoring methods for patients with stroke risk can increase early detection of atrial fibrillation ...

December 07, 2021

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

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

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Cardiovascular Ultrasound Analytics Aids Re-accreditation Process

Feature | Analytics Software

The Benefits of Data Analytics in Clinical Reporting

Accurate reporting is essential to producing the reliable analytics needed to meet lab accreditation standards. This is ...

October 27, 2021

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

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

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Feature | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

Improving Consistency and Standardization With Structured Reporting

Jeff Rieder M.D., a cardiologist with Coastal Cardiology Charleston, clearly recalls the time when reporting was ...

July 26, 2021

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

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