Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

This channel includes news and new technology innovations from cardiovascular clinical trials. These clinical studies include all cardiac subspecialties.

Findings from STELLAR Phase III Trial Presented at ACC23 Report Novel First-in-class Medication Shows Promise in Treating Rare Heart Lung Condition
March 6, 2023 — In findings presented from the STELLAR Phase III Trial during the American College of Cardiology’s 2023 Scientific Session, ACC23/WCC, researchers reported that adding a novel first-in ...
Virtual Care Team-Guided Strategy Optimizes GDMT for Hospitalized HF Patients in IMPLEMENT-HF Trial, According to Multi-Center Study Presented at ACC 23
March 7, 2023 — A virtual care team-guided strategy for guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) optimization was found to be safe and improve therapy among patients hospitalized with heart failure ...
AI Provides Personalized Guidance Based on Inherited Risk of Heart Disease
March 5, 2023 — Researchers demonstrated that a causal artificial intelligence (AI) system can accurately quantify how much a person must reduce their blood pressure or low-density lipoprotein (LDL) ...
Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair Reduces Hospitalizations and Deaths
March 5, 2023 — In patients with heart failure and a poorly functioning heart valve, a minimally invasive procedure using a clip to repair the valve was safe, cut the rate of hospitalizations for ...

Six-month results from the BIOMAG-I clinical study including intravascular imaging data were presented at CRT 2023

News | Stents Bioresorbable

New Data Highlight Promising Angiographic and Safety Profile of BIOTRONIK’s Third Generation Resorbable Magnesium Scaffold

March 16, 2023 — Prof. Michael Haude, BIOMAG-I Coordinating Clinical Investigator, presented the latest results of the B ...

March 16, 2023

Winners of the ACC 2023 Young Investigators Awards were announced during the American College of Cardiology Together with the World Congress of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, ACC23/WCC. The 18 finalists presenting cutting-edge science represented seven states, three countries and 11 different institutions.

News | ACC

Young Investigator Awards at ACC 2023 Scientific Sessions Recognize Cutting-Edge Science

March 16, 2023 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) announced the winners and finalists of its 2023 Young ...

March 16, 2023

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine published a study in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography showing that transesophageal echocardiography-guided transcatheter structural intervention was associated with a major complication in 3.6 percent of patients.

News | Cardiovascular Surgery

Study Shows One in 25 Patients Undergoing Transesophageal Echocardiography-guided Transcatheter Structural Cardiac Intervention Suffered a Major Complication

March 15, 2023 — Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine published ...

March 15, 2023

Many patients don’t receive much rehabilitation therapy following a stroke, despite strong evidence that higher amounts can reduce long-term disability, according to a new UCLA-led study that tracked over 500 patients across 28 acute care hospitals in their first year following a stroke.

News | Stroke

Many Patients Receive Too Little Rehab Therapy Following Stroke, Study Finds

March 15, 2023 — Many patients don’t receive much rehabilitation therapy following a stroke, despite strong evidence ...

March 15, 2023

US hospital claims data reveals cardiogenic shock patients have an average hospital length of stay of 19.6 days making its intensive patient care cost very high

News | Cardiogenic Shock

Windtree Finds Cardiogenic Shock Has High Cost of US Patient Care and Plans Innovation with the Unique Profile of Istaroxime

March 15, 2023 — Windtree Therapeutics, Inc, a biotechnology company focused on advancing late-stage interventions for ...

March 15, 2023

News | Drug-Eluting Balloons

Over 1,000 Patients Enrolled in Landmark SELUTION DeNovo Study

March 14, 2023 —MedAlliance has announced enrollment of over 1,000 patients in its ground-breaking SELUTION DeNovo coron ...

March 14, 2023

Results Suggest CardiAMP Cell Therapy May Have Ability to Restore and Maintain Heart Function to Previously Non-Functioning Areas of the Heart Up to Two Years After Treatment

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

Positive Echocardiography Data from BioCardia Phase III CardiAMP Cell Therapy Heart Failure Trial Presented at American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting

March 13, 2023 — BioCardia, Inc., developer of cellular and cell-derived therapeutics for the treatment of ...

March 13, 2023

The three-decade-old international cutpoint for diagnosing children and adolescents with an enlarged heart misclassifies normal heart size as cardiac damage in adolescents, a paper published in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology concludes

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Researchers Suggest Novel Cutpoints for Diagnosing Cardiac Hypertrophy in Adolescents and Young Adults

March 13, 2023 — An enlarged heart, often described as left ventricular hypertrophy, is a sign of early cardiac damage ...

March 13, 2023

Additional studies presented at ACC.23/WCC reinforce the clinical value of the Zio suite of products and services

News | ECG

Large Real-World Evidence Analysis of Zio XT

March 13, 2023 — iRhythm Technologies, Inc., a leading digital health company focused on creating trusted solutions ...

March 13, 2023

News | Pulmonary Embolism

FLAME Study Demonstrates 90% Survival Improvement in High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism with Inari Medical FlowTriever System

March 10, 2023 — Inari Medical, Inc., a medical device company with a mission to treat and transform the lives of ...

March 10, 2023

A large UW Medicine-Kaiser Permanente study finds modestly increased risk, with a stronger link seen among younger, healthier people.

News | Atrial Fibrillation

Incident Atrial Fibrillation Appears to Heighten Dementia Risk

March 9, 2023 — People with a recent diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common irregular heart rhythm, have ...

March 09, 2023

C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, Director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at the Smidt Heart Institute, received the distinguished achievement of Master of the ACC (MACC) on March 6 during Annual Scientific Session

News | ACC

American College of Cardiology Honors Women’s Heart Disease Pioneer

March 9, 2023 — C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, professor of cardiology and the director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s ...

March 09, 2023

Use of an antihypertensive to lower blood pressure in obese patients was found effective, according to Target-HTN Trial results presented during the 2023 American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

News | ACC

Data from Target-HTN Trial Released at ACC23 Supports Use of Antihypertensive to Reduce Blood Pressure in Obese Patients

March 9, 2023 — Positive results from a Mineralys Therapeutics study, the Target-HTN Phase 2 trial, demonstrated ...

March 09, 2023

Study will evaluate THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH SF Dual Energy Catheter’s potential to enable safer and simpler procedures with the ability to deliver both radiofrequency and pulsed field ablation

News | Atrial Fibrillation

Biosense Webster’s First Dual Energy Catheter to Treat Atrial Fibrillation Begins Evaluation in SmartfIRE Clinical Trial

March 8, 2023 — Biosense Webster, Inc., a global leader in cardiac arrhythmia treatment and part of Johnson & Johnson ...

March 08, 2023

A study to better understand the association between Lipoprotein(a), Lp(a) levels and artherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in an underrepresented population has been announced by Amgen, which will be working with the Association of Black Cardiologists and the Morehouse School of Medicine on the African American Heart Study.

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

African American Heart Study Announced by Amgen, in Collaboration with Association of Black Cardiologists and Morehouse School of Medicine

March 8, 2023 — A unique community-based partnership, the African American Heart Study, will be conducted to measure the ...

March 08, 2023