Internet search engine giant Google unveiled a new Doodle on its homepage Friday, July 12, celebrating the life and work of cardiac surgeon Rene Favaloro. Favarolo, originally from Argentina, was...
Cardiovascular Surgery
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for cardiac surgery. This includes coronary bypass grafts, surgical valve replacements.
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Joe Cleveland, M.D., professor of cardiothoracic surgery, at the...
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A new set of appropriate use criteria (AUC) released Dec. 17 by a group of cardiovascular professional societies provide guidelines for peripheral artery interventions. The purpose of the AUC is...
Feature | Structural Heart | July 18, 2019
July 18, 2019 — When a patient comes to the hospital with...
News | Cardiovascular Surgery | July 12, 2019 | Jeff Zagoudis, Associate Editor
July 12, 2019 — Internet search engine giant Google unveiled a new Doodle on its homepage Friday, July 12, 2019,...
Videos | Virtual and Augmented Reality | June 20, 2019
The Parasym Salustim device ear clip stimulates the vagus nerve, which was found to reduced AF burden compared with a sham procedure in the TREAT AF trial.
News | Atrial Fibrillation | May 13, 2019
May 13, 2019 — A randomized clinical trial effectively used nerve stimulation through an ear clip to reduce...
News | Stem Cell Therapies | April 19, 2019
April 19, 2019 — Aziyo Biologics Inc. announced the publication of results from its landmark RECON study in the...
Blog | Cardiovascular Surgery | February 25, 2019
Here is what I thought were the top five most important take-away presentations from the 2019...
News | Heart Valve Technology | February 18, 2019
February 18, 2019 — Foldax Inc. announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted investigative...
Technology | Advanced Visualization | February 14, 2019
February 14, 2019 — Medical imaging and visualization company Medivis officially unveiled SurgicalAR, its...
Technology | Cardiovascular Surgery | February 01, 2019
February 1, 2019 — Paragonix Technologies Inc. recently received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug...
News | Heart Valve Technology | January 29, 2019
January 29, 2019 — LivaNova PLC announced the publication of three separate studies highlighting the performance of...
News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) | December 19, 2018
December 19, 2018 — A new set of appropriate use criteria (AUC) released Dec. 17 by a group of cardiovascular...
Videos | Advanced Visualization | December 12, 2018
This is an example of the FDA-cleared OpenSight augmented reality (AR) system for surgical planning from NovaRad at...
A pig heart, shown here, is very similar in size and anatomy to a human heart. For this reason, pigs are used extensively in pre-clinical animal testing for new implantable cardiovascular devices. If pig hearts could be used for human transplantation, it would greatly alleviate shortages of donor human hearts.
News | Cardiovascular Surgery | December 11, 2018
December 11, 2018 — The scientific journal...
