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August 26, 2014 — The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced the late-breaking trials and first report ...

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Feature | Heart Valve Technology

August 25, 2015 — Medtronic announced it entered a definitive agreement to acquire Twelve Inc., a start–up medical ...

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

August 25, 2015 — The American Society of Echocardiography Foundation’s (ASEF) humanitarian mission in Hanoi, Vietnam ...

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Technology | Cath Lab

August 21, 2015 — CompView Medical announced the release of the NuCART, a turn-key, all-in-one mobile boom system with ...

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News | CT Angiography (CTA)

August 21, 2015 — Loyola University Medical Center is the first and only hospital in Illinois to offer a new ...

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Technology | EP Lab

BioSig Technologies announced it has signed a sponsored research agreement with the regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct preclinical evaluation of BioSig's Pure EP System in a ventricular tachycardia (VT) model.

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News | Womens Cardiovascular Health

WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease announced that it will host the first National Policy & Science Summit on Women's Cardiovascular Health, Oct. 26-27, 2015 in Washington, D.C.

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Technology | Stents Peripheral

Boston Scientific Corp. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the Innova Vascular Self-Expanding Stent System, an advanced treatment option for patients with narrowing or blockages in the superficial femoral artery (SFA) or proximal popliteal artery (PPA).

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News | Stent Grafts

Lombard Medical Inc. a medical device company focused on endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), announced the acquisition of Silicon Valley-based Altura Medical.

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Technology | Radiation Dose Management

Corindus Vascular Robotics Inc. and Unfors RaySafe Inc., a Fluke Biomedical Company, announced a distribution agreement allowing Corindus to offer the RaySafe i2 real-time radiation dose monitoring system in conjunction with the CorPath System.

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Loyola University Medical Center is the first center in Illinois to implant the CoreValve Evolut R percutaneous aortic heart valve that does not require open heart surgery.

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News | Womens Cardiovascular Health

Women and black patients lost more years of their expected life after a heart attack when compared to white men, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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News | Heart Failure

Sunshine Heart Inc. announced an update in late July on its COUNTER HF U.S. pivotal study for the C-Pulse Heart Assist System. COUNTER HF is a prospective, randomized, multi-center, controlled study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the C-Pulse system for the treatment of New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III and ambulatory Class IV heart failure. The study was temporarily paused this past March after the company notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of four deaths in the treatment arm of the study. The deaths were adjudicated as not device- or therapy-related, and as previously announced on May 26th, the FDA approved resumption of patient enrollment in the study.

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Technology | Embolization devices

Merit Medical Systems Inc. announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanding indication for QuadraSphere Microspheres to include the embolization of hepatoma.

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News | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices (CRT)

Biotronik announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the BioCONTINUE clinical trial (BIOtronik study to assess the CONTINUation of Existing risk of ventricular arrhythmias after CRT-D replacement). BioCONTINUE is the first study to investigate the relevance of defibrillator back-up following first device replacement in a heart failure (HF) patient population with a primary indication for a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D).

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