News | Cardiovascular Business

July 26, 2016 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed the creation of new bundled payment ...

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Feature | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies | Heidi Olson, Pharm.D

With the recent introduction of several novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) on the U.S. market that have been billed by ...

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News | Angiographic Catheter

Stryker Sustainability Solutions (formerly Ascent Healthcare Solutions) is recalling Angiodynamics Soft Vu Omni Flush Angiographic Catheters due to reports of separation of the tip of the catheter from the main body.

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News | SPECT Imaging

UltraSPECT Inc. announced recently that Robert Wood Johnson Physician Enterprise (RWJPE), a multi-specialty, community-based physician group in Central New Jersey, implemented UltraSPECT’s Xpress3.Cardiac solution at four of their sites.

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News | Patient Engagement

July 22, 2016 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced 516 awardees in 47 states, Puerto ...

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News | Heart Failure

CardioKinetix Inc. announced this week that 500 patients have received the company’s Parachute Ventricular Partitioning Device for heart failure. Patients have been treated in more than 15 countries, including patients in key international markets where the device is commercially available, and patients enrolled in PARACHUTE IV, the company’s U.S. pivotal trial under investigational device exemption (IDE).

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

People who develop heart failure after their first heart attack have a greater risk of developing cancer when compared to first-time heart attack survivors without heart failure, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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Feature | Stents Bioresorbable | Alphonse Ambrosia, D.O.

Some have labeled bioresorbable scaffolds (BRS), also known as bioresorbable stents, as the fourth evolution of ...

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News | Mobile Devices

July 21, 2016 — A new paper published in the June issue of Computer cautions that while mobile health (mHealth) is ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

A novel study has found a simple pre-operative echocardiographic measurement of the amount of torsion of the heart predicted outcomes of mitral valve surgery in some heart failure patients. The study was published in JACC: Basic to Translational Science.

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New data from the TITAN II trial confirm the safety and efficacy of the Carillon Mitral Contour System in the treatment of functional (secondary) mitral regurgitation (FMR).

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News | Congenital Heart

At the end of June, experts from three different medical societies released a new guideline to help optimize lifetime management of patients with transposition of the great arteries, a congenital heart defect, both before and after surgical intervention.

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Technology | Cardiac Imaging

July 19, 2016 — Siemens Healthineers recently introduced an expanded Services portfolio, known as Enterprise Services ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Mitralign Inc. announced last week it has completed subject enrollment in the SCOUT early feasibility study in the United States.

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Technology | Telecardiology

Dictum Health Inc. announced the launch of a post-U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approval study of its end-to-end telehealth care-delivery system with University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

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