January 15, 2020 – Too few people covered by Medicare participated in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack or acute heart event or surgery, particularly women, the elderly and...
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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Haval Chweich, M.D., medical director of the cardiac critical care unit (CCU) at Tufts Medical Center, and assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, explains the role of...
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January 7, 2020 — Abbott announced U.S.
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January 2, 2020 — In early December 2019, leaders of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) withdrew their support for...
News | Robotic Systems | January 20, 2020
January 20, 2020 — Research has found that repairing the mitral valve earlier, before the mitral valve prolapse...
Congestive heart failure patient Dorothy Moore committed herself to cardiac rehabilitation and increasing the amount of exercise she did and was able to reverse her heart failure class. She was a patient at the DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit.
News | Cardiac Rehabilitation | January 15, 2020
January 15, 2020 – Too few people covered by Medicare participated in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation after a...
News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | January 07, 2020
January 7, 2020 — Abbott announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new alternative surgical...
People watch the live presentation of the five-year EXCEL Trial data by Gregg Stone, M.D., in the Abbott booth at TCT 2019. Abbott makes the Xience stent used in the trial, which compared equally with long-term CABG surgical outcomes.
News | Cath Lab | January 02, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
January 2, 2020 — In early December 2019, leaders of the European...
The Wyss Translational Center in Zurich, Switzerland has developed the LifeMatrix platform to engineer tissues that can be implanted in patients and will grow with them. This technology is being developed for heart valves in younger patients to eliminate the need for repeat surgeries to implant larger prosthetic heart valves as the patient grows.
News | Heart Valve Technology | December 26, 2019
While transcatheter heart valve replacement and repair devices are growing in popularity due to their delivery and...
News | Hemodynamic Support Devices | November 04, 2019
November 4, 2019 — Abbott is recalling its CentriMag Acute Circulatory Support System due to a calibration system...
A comparison of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) vs. angiography found a significant mismatch and showed the benefits of IVUS in venous interventions.
News | Venous Therapies | October 31, 2019
October 31, 2019 – In a large series of iliac vein stent cases, a blinded comparison found...
News | Cardiovascular Surgery | October 23, 2019
October 23, 2019 — Proactive administration of amiodarone to patients recovering from a common heart surgery shows...
News | Cardiovascular Surgery | October 17, 2019
October 17, 2019 — W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. will support a new Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) initiative...
A Sapien 3 TAVR valve in position as seen under GE Assist guidance on angiography.
News | Heart Valve Technology | October 04, 2019
October 4, 2019 – A new analysis of the PARTNER 3 Trial data found a modest, but significant, improvement in one-...
News | Cath Lab | September 25, 2019
September 25, 2019 — Ten-year survival rates are similar for...
Image courtesy of the American Heart Association
News | Cardiovascular Surgery | August 22, 2019
August 22, 2019 — The amount of opioids prescribed for patients after...
News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) | August 01, 2019
August 1, 2019 — Less-invasive procedures to open severely clogged...
News | Cardiovascular Surgery | July 26, 2019
July 26, 2019 — A highly competitive $4.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart...
