Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology

Computed tomography 3D surface rendering of the lungs and heart from a patient with pulmonary arterial hypertension demonstrating trachea and major airways (yellow), an enlarged heart (red), enlarged main pulmonary artery (large blue vessel on top of heart) and thinning of the peripheral pulmonary vessels (blue). Marcus Y. Chen, M.D., NHLBI

Novel Blood Test Helps Evaluate Severity in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, a Rare Lung Disease

September 12, 2022 — Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found that a novel blood test can be used to ...

September 12, 2022

News | SPECT-CT

Philips Announces New Milestones in the Development of the World’s First Spectral Detector Angio CT Solution

September 12, 2022 — Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, announced new milestones in the development of ...

September 12, 2022

WATCHMAN FLX now the only LAAC technology in the United States that allows for either DAPT or OAC immediately following implantation

News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

Boston Scientific Receives FDA Approval for Expanded Labeling of WATCHMAN FLX LAAC Device for Dual Anti-Platelet Therapy as Post-Procedural Medication Option

September 12, 2022 — Boston Scientific Corporation has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to ...

September 12, 2022

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Feature | Nuclear Imaging

Cardiac PET/CT — A New Standard for Cardiac Imaging

Cardiac PET/CT represents a major advancement in cardiovascular diagnostics, offering significant clinical and ...

November 12, 2025

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare providers about potential clip lock malfunctions with MitraClip Clip Delivery Systems manufactured by Abbott.

News | Heart Valve Technology

FDA Alerts Healthcare Providers to Potential for Clip Lock Malfunctions in Abbott MitraClip Device

September 9, 2022 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare providers about potential clip ...

September 09, 2022

Results from ENVISAGE-TAVI AF show mortality risk score for AFib patients undergoing TAVR. Image courtesy of Mount Sinai Health System

News | Atrial Fibrillation

New Risk Score Predicts Mortality for Atrial Fibrillation Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

September 9, 2 022 — A large-scale international study led by Mount Sinai has yielded the first risk score that can help ...

September 09, 2022

Araz Rawshani, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg. Photo by Charlotta Sjöstedt

News | Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac Arrest Survival Rate Rising

September 9, 2022 — The probability of surviving sudden cardiac arrest outside hospital has more than doubled in 30 ...

September 09, 2022

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Intuitive Imaging Workflow System Offers Improved Efficiency, Flexibility

SPONSORED CONTENT — Studycast is a comprehensive imaging workflow system that allows healthcare professionals to work ...

June 17, 2025

investigator Michelle O’Donoghue, MD, MPH, a senior investigator of the TIMI Study Group in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Image courtesy of Michelle O'Donoghue/Brigham and Women's Hospital

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

FOURIER-OLE Trial Finds that Long-term Use of Evolocumab Further Reduced Cardiovascular Events

September 8, 2022 — A clinical trial led by investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital has found that the long-term ...

September 08, 2022

News | Remote Monitoring

Leading Cardiac Remote Monitoring Company Acquires Technology IP to Boost Its Robust Product Portfolio

September 8, 2022 — PrepMD RMS, the premier cardiac clinical solutions company, announced today the acquisition of the ...

September 08, 2022

The OCTARAY Mapping Catheter with TRUEref Technology provides physicians with the precise information needed for catheter ablation procedures that treat cardiac arrhythmias

News | Catheter

Biosense Webster Launches the OCTARAY Mapping Catheter with TRUErefTechnology

September 8, 2022 — Biosense Webster, Inc., part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech‡, announced the release of the OCTARAY ...

September 08, 2022

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ASCEND provides the tools that not only address the unique needs of each cardiovascular subspecialty and to care for patients from infancy into their golden years, they also innovates next-generation solutions and services that empower the provider community to truly transform their cardiovascular services

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

Top 10 content for the month of August 2022

Feature | Cardiovascular Business | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Top 10: A Look at the Hot Topics from August

Here is a rundown of what you and your colleagues found to be most interesting in the fields of diagnostic and ...

September 07, 2022

Volta VX1 decision support software reproduces expert-physician electrogram (EGM) analysis that can assist physicians in the real-time identification of specific abnormal electrograms in a persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) population

News | Cardiovascular Surgery

Volta Medical’s AI Based solution for Patients in Atrial Fibrillation Achieves Robust Validation in First Peer-Reviewed Publication

September 7, 2022 — Nuwellis, Inc., a commercial-stage company focused on transforming the lives of people with fluid ...

September 07, 2022

Graphical abstract During COVID19 total lockdown in 2020 in France, a significant reduction in vascular stiffness, recorded by home smart scales, was observed.© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society o f Cardiology.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any me

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Strict COVID Lockdowns in France Improved Cardiovascular Health

September 7, 2022 — A new paper in European Heart Journal - Digital Health, published by Oxford University Press ...

September 07, 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

Societies outline recommendations for hardware and software, training, competency, cross-specialty and collaboration

News | SPECT-CT

New ASNC-led Guideline Details How to Use CT in Hybrid Nuclear-CT Cardiac Imaging

September 7, 2022 — The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and three partner societies have come together to ...

September 07, 2022

Prespecified meta-analysis of DELIVER and EMPEROR-Preserved presented in a Hot Line Session at ESC Congress 2022

News | Pharmaceuticals

Meta-Analysis Strengthens Evidence for SGLT2 Inhibitors in Patients With Heart Failure

September 6, 2022 — An analysis of more than 12,000 patients has found that the SGLT2 inhibitors dapagliflozin and ...

September 06, 2022

Stopping statin treatment early could substantially reduce lifetime protection against heart disease since a large share of the benefit occurs later in life

News | Pharmaceuticals

Study Highlights Lifelong Benefits of Statin Therapy

September 6, 2022 — Stopping statin treatment early could substantially reduce lifetime protection against heart disease ...

September 06, 2022