Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology

Teleflex Receives FDA Clearance for Expanded Indication for Specialty Catheter and Coronary Guidewire Use in CTO PCI Procedures

February 25, 2022 – Teleflex Incorporated, a leading global provider of medical technologies, today announced that the U ...

February 25, 2022

News | Balloon Catheter

Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. and OrbusNeich Announce FDA PMA Approval of Scoreflex Scoring Balloon

Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., a medical device company developing and commercializing innovative interventional ...

February 25, 2022

News | Artificial Intelligence

New Artificial Intelligence Tool Detects Often Overlooked Heart Diseases

Physician-scientists in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that ...

February 25, 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

News | Heart Failure

Abbott’s CardioMEMS HF System Receives FDA Approval to Support Patients Battling Earlier-Stage Heart Failure

February 25, 2022 – Abbott has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expanded ...

February 25, 2022

Jaimin Trivedi, University of Louisville Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

News | Heart Failure

UofL Study Shows Improvement in Heart Transplant Access, Outcomes for Black Patients

February 25, 2022 – Researchers at the University of Louisville analyzed data for heart transplants from 1987 to 2019 to ...

February 25, 2022

Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (IVOCT)

News | Intravascular Imaging

Dyad Medical Secures FDA Clearance For Cardiac Image Analysis Platform

February 25, 2022 – Dyad Medical, Inc., the developer of the cloud-based AI technology for cardiac image analysis called ...

February 25, 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

News | Heart Failure

Breakthrough Study Uses Genetic Testing to Evaluate Risk of Heart Disease

February 25, 2022 – Dignity Health in Arizona is launching the first research study in North America in which genetic ...

February 25, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Jardiance (empagliflozin) to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death and hospitalization for heart failure in adults.

News | Heart Failure

FDA Approves Empagliflozin for Reducing Risk of Heart Failure

February 24, 2022 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Jardiance (empagliflozin) to reduce the risk of ...

February 24, 2022

The Department of Justice, together with Attorneys General in Minnesota and New York, filed a civil lawsuit today to stop UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (United) from acquiring Change Healthcare Inc. (Change).

News | Cardiovascular Business

Justice Department Sues to Block UnitedHealth Group’s Acquisition of Change Healthcare

February 24, 2022 — The Department of Justice, together with Attorneys General in Minnesota and New York, filed a civil ...

February 24, 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

We are at the precipice of a huge development in patient care, with the first smart hospital already announced last year in Southeast Asia. To keep pace, governments in the US and Europe need to increase investment in 5G networks, as these will be essential to meet the high network demands.

News | Information Technology

Significant Expansion of 5G Networks Could be the Catalyst Towards Smart Hospitals

February 24, 2022 — Imagine that you are admitted to hospital. A smart scheduling system ensures you have a bed; you ...

February 24, 2022

Scientists have already discovered that the gut microbiome is altered in people with chronic heart disease. They subsequently identified compounds that are produced by the diseased microbiome, for instance a bacterial compound called trimethylamine (TMA) that after modification in the liver of the human host causes arteriosclerosis.

News | Heart Failure

Scientists Characterize the Imbalanced Gut Bacteria of Patients with Myocardial Infarction, Angina and Heart Failure

February 21, 2022 – The human gut contains trillions of bacteria, collectively called the gut microbiome, which may have ...

February 21, 2022

Researchers at Gladstone; Nearly 1 percent of all children are born with congenital heart disease—a range of potentially life-threatening problems with the structure and function of their hearts. For most children, the precise causes of these frightening defects are unknown.

News | Congenital Heart

Getting to the Heart of Complex Disease

February 21, 2022—Nearly 1 percent of all children are born with congenital heart disease—a range of potentially life ...

February 21, 2022

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Case Study | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

Mining Cardiology Data to Optimize Patient Care and Improve Productivity

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many cardiology departments were faced with the daunting task of supporting inpatient and ...

June 18, 2021

Angioscopic findings in the FPA and infrapopliteal lesions

News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

Study Finds Ulcerated Plaque in the Femoropopliteal Artery as Source of Arterial Embolism in the Popliteal Arteries

February 21, 2022 – A research group the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of ...

February 21, 2022

An ultrasound is taken of a patient's heart.

News | Cardiac Imaging

A Non-invasive Way to Predict Heart Attack and Stroke

February 21, 2022 – Acute coronary syndromes (such as heart attacks) and strokes are a leading cause of morbidity and ...

February 21, 2022

Nuwellis, Inc. has announced the company will evaluate the clinical outcomes and economic value of its Aquadex therapy in comparison to intravenous diuretics for the treatment of fluid overload in patients with worsening heart failure through its randomized controlled trial, Ultrafiltration Versus IV Diuretics in Worsening Heart Failure, the REVERSE-HF Study.

News | Heart Failure

Nuwellis Initiates REVERSE-HF Study to Evaluate Ultrafiltration for Heart Failure Patients with Fluid Overload

February 21, 2022 – Nuwellis, Inc. has announced the company will evaluate the clinical outcomes and economic value of ...

February 21, 2022