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Transesophageal echo (TEE) being used to guide the deployment of a MitraClip device during a structural heart procedure at the University of Colorado Hospital. The center has performed more than 200 MitraClip mitral valve repairs over the past decade. Photo by Dave Fornell
Feature | Structural Heart

The resounding success of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has led the creation of hundreds of structural ...

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

April 6, 2021 — A tsunami of chronic health conditions as a result of the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, especially car ...

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News | Cardiovascular Surgery

April 5, 2021 — Smidt Heart Institute transplant surgeons Dominic Emerson, M.D., and Pedro Catarino, M.D. know how to be ...

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News | EP Lab

April 2, 2021 — Today, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) launched the Electrophysiology (EP) Device Implant ...

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Sponsored Content | Case Study | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

Washington Health System (WHS) provides healthcare services at more than 40 offsite locations across three counties in ...

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News | Cardiovascular Business

March 12, 2021 — Cardinal Health today announced that it is selling its Cordis cardiology and endovascular business to ...

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The Teleflex Manta large-bore vascular closure device can seal holes between 12 and 25 French.
Feature | Hemostasis Management | Dave Fornell, Editor

While many cardiac and vascular procedures have largely moved to minimally invasive techniques, the size of these ...

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

March 3, 2021 — AliveCor recently announced a new collaboration with AstraZeneca to research new disease management ...

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News | Simulators

February 24, 2021 – German-based endovascular simulator specialist Cathi has launched a highly portable System in a ...

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News | Endovascular Aortic Repair

February 23, 2021 — Medtronic has voluntarily issued a global recall of unused Medtronic Valiant Navion thoracic stent ...

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Vaccinating patients against the flu can go a long way to helping cardiology patients stay healthy and out of the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic, freeing up beds for COVID patients. Left photo, Getty Images, right image of COVID-19 virus from the NIH.
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | By William Schaffner, M.D., and Allen J. Taylor, M.D.

While influenza (flu) is unpredictable, the 2020-2021 influenza season may present an unprecedented dual threat: co ...

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Two examples of hand-held, point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) being used to get immediate medical imaging information from patients in underserved areas. Left, a Butterfly Network system using an probe and an app turns a smartphone into an ultrasound system to image a patient at a remote African clinic. Right, a GE vScan being used to image patients in a rural community in Indian as part of an American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) outreach program.
Feature | Health Disparities | By Dave Fornell, Editor

There is a lot of talk about health disparities between the insured vs. uninsured, low-income vs. higher-income, rural ...

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