Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

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

MMRI Scientist Dr. Nathan Tucker co-authors groundbreaking study with team from The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Bayer AG

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

Molecular Heart Mapping and Cripsr Technology Create New Possibilities for Health Science

July 15, 2022 — Imagine, if scientists had a map of the heart, so granular in its accuracy that it even profiled details ...

July 15, 2022

This model heart ventricle, made with real living heart cells, beats strongly enough to pump fluid inside a tube. It can be used to study heart disease and test out potential therapies, without the need for invasive surgery.

News | Artificial Heart

Reverse Engineering the Heart: University of Toronto Engineering Team Creates Bioartificial Left Ventricle

July 14, 2022 — University of Toronto Engineering researchers have grown a small-scale model of a human left heart ...

July 14, 2022

The authors analyzed data about 8,224 children who received cardiac transplants from January 1994 through September 2019. The data came from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), a national database of all organ transplants in the United States. The researchers adjusted their analyses for factors including age, sex, cognitive difficulties, insurance status, transplant year and the reason for heart transplant.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Study Finds Risk Disparity for Black Children Who Have Stroke After Heart Transplant

July 13, 2022 — Black children who underwent heart transplant surgery for the first time were more than three times as ...

July 13, 2022

the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to the AccuCinch Ventricular Restoration System

News | Heart Failure

Ancora Heart Receives Breakthrough Device Designation from FDA for the AccuCinch Ventricular Restoration System

July 13, 2022 — Ancora Heart, Inc., a company developing a novel device-based therapy to address heart failure, today ...

July 13, 2022

The BIO REACT study was designed to better understand when and where a stent is needed following drug-coated balloon for the treatment of femoropopliteal artery lesions in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD)

News | Drug-Eluting Balloons

New Data at LINC 2022 Confirm Passeo-18 Lux Drug-Coated Balloon is a Safe and Effective Treatment in Challenging Patient Groups

July 12, 2022 — Biotronik announced the presentation of two studies on the performance of its drug-coated balloon ...

July 12, 2022

Smoking traditional or non-combustible cigarettes while wearing a surgical mask results in a two-fold rise in exhaled carbon monoxide and impaired blood vessel function compared to non-mask periods

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

Mask Wearing Amplifies Harms of Smoking

July 11, 2022 — Smoking traditional or non-combustible cigarettes while wearing a surgical mask results in a two-fold ...

July 12, 2022

Tenaya’s Precision Medicine Platform Used to Identify HDAC6 Target Using Phenotypic Screening and Machine Learning Algorithms

News | Heart Failure

Tenaya Therapeutics Publishes Preclinical Data in Science Translational Medicine Detailing Discovery of HDAC6 Inhibitor for Treatment of Heart Failure

July 7, 2022 — Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company with a mission to discover, develop and deliver ...

July 07, 2022

Multi-site study aims to prevent heart disease in young breast cancer patients

News | Womens Cardiovascular Health

Grant to Help Researchers Uncover Signs of Heart Damage

July 7, 2022 — A 5-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the ...

July 07, 2022

The mechanism of AF reveals that the interaction between AF and the remodeling of the autonomic nervous system constitutes a vicious circle and exacerbates the condition rapidly

News | Atrial Fibrillation

A Closed-Loop Self-Powered Low-Level Vagus Nerve Stimulation System Based on Hybrid Nanogenerator for Atrial Fibrillation Treatment

July 6, 2022 — Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a prevalent cardiovascular condition with one of the highest rates of ...

July 06, 2022

Scientists develop a roadmap to future personalized medicine for heart defects that develop before birth

News | Congenital Heart

New Understanding of Congenital Heart Disease Progression Opens Door to Improved Treatment Options

July 6, 2022 — A team of investigators from Texas Heart Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of ...

July 06, 2022

News | Stroke

How Blood Pressure Affects Stroke Recovery

July 5, 2022 — Is lowering patients' blood pressure following treatment for an ischemic stroke a safe way to lead to ...

July 05, 2022

A research team at RUB has discovered the mechanisms by which the coronavirus attacks the heart – and how it could be stopped.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

How the Coronavirus Attacks the Heart

July 5, 2022 — The International Journal of Cardiology published an article on the findings of how the Coronavirus ...

July 05, 2022

Despite overall improvements to care for a heart attack, women are less likely to receive timely treatment, according to a new study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

News | Womens Cardiovascular Health

Treatment for Heart Attacks Improving but Gaps in Access Persist, New Study Shows

July 1, 2022 — Despite overall improvements to care for a heart attack, women are less likely to receive timely ...

July 01, 2022

The authors used a questionnaire to collect in three rural districts data on symptoms and clinical characteristics after COVID-19, with the focus on symptoms after 12 weeks.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

The Effects of Long COVID

June 27, 2022 — Three articles and an accompanying editorial provide information on the effects of Long COVID in the Deu ...

June 28, 2022

Lead study author Dr. Nassir Marrouche, director of the Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute and The Research Innovation for Arrhythmia Discoveries (TRIAD) at Tulane University School of Medicine. Image courtesy of Tulane University

News | Heart Failure

Global AFib Study Finds Simple Approach is Best for Ablation Procedures

June 27, 2022 — Results from one of the largest global studies of atrial fibrillation (AFib) procedures show that the ...

June 28, 2022