Joe Cleveland, M.D., professor of cardiothoracic surgery, at the...
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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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...
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This is an example of the FDA-cleared OpenSight augmented reality (AR) system for surgical planning from NovaRad at the ...
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The scientific journal Nature recently published an article from Munich University Hospital which describes the long-term survival of baboons that had received a heart transplant from genetically...
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...
News | Heart Valve Technology | November 02, 2018
November 2, 2018 — Hospitals that routinely perform a...
News | Cardiovascular Surgery | October 25, 2018
October 25, 2018 — On Oct. 18, 2018, LivaNova issued a...
A patient who received the HeartMate III LVAD system showing off his external battery pack. He served as a patient ambassador in the Abbott booth at ACC 2018. The HeartMate III, with its magnetic levitated pump, showed a big reduction in clotting over previous LVADs in a key late-breaking trial at ACC earlier this year.
Feature | Heart Failure | October 19, 2018
October 19, 2018 — Abbott announced today that the HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) has received U....
