News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) is in the midst of Echovation Challenge 2017, a competition for its members, and the medical and scientific community at large, to develop innovative solutions in cardiovascular ultrasound technology.

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News | EP Lab

January 5, 2017 – Reacting to a critical shortage of electrophysiology (EP) lab technicians and nurses who treat heart ...

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Technology | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

At RSNA 2016, Siemens Healthineers unveiled its groundbreaking Compressed Sensing technology, which overcomes a major ...

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News | Nuclear Imaging

January 5, 2017 — Working in concert, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), the Intersocietal Accreditation ...

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News | Cardiovascular Business

January 5, 2017 — Abbott announced it completed the acquisition of St. Jude Medical Inc. The transaction provides Abbott ...

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News | Population Health

In a study published online by JAMA Cardiology, researchers from Stanford University assessed the feasibility of measuring physical activity, fitness and sleep from smartphones. The goal was to gain insight into activity patterns associated with life satisfaction and self-reported disease.

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News | Blood Testing

A high-sensitivity blood test could be used to predict which patients are at risk of a heart attack according to new research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

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News | Congenital Heart

A new minimally invasive technique for repairing the most common cardiac birth defect in extremely premature newborns can be performed safely with a high success rate in babies as small as 755 grams – about 1.6 pounds – only a few days after birth.

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News | Atrial Fibrillation

January 4, 2017 — A smartphone application made it possible to use the iPhone camera to detect atrial fibrillation via ...

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

January 4, 2017 — A new ground-breaking technology that allows evaluation of cardiac valves using holograms was ...

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Technology | Angiography

January 4, 2015 — At RSNA 2016, Siemens Healthineers unveiled its 510(k)-pending robot-supported Artis pheno angiography ...

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News | Stem Cell Therapies

January 3, 2017 — BioCardia Inc. announced in December the initiation of the CardiAMP Heart Failure pivotal trial, a ...

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News | Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps (IABP) | Dave Fornell

The Impella CP heart pump (Abiomed) demonstrated no improvement in mortality for patients with myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock compared to intra-aortic balloon (IABP) counterpulsation in results from the prospective, randomized, multi-center IMPRESS Trial presented at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2016. However, the trial was limited to 48 patients and was too underpowered to show differences in clinical outcome, but was completed as an exploratory safety study.

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

This video, provided by Valtech, demonstrates the Cardioband transcatheter mitral annuloplasty system. It allows ...

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Technology | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems

St. Jude Medical Inc. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of its EnSite Precision™ cardiac mapping system and Advisor FL Circular Mapping Catheter, Sensor Enabled in December.

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