Cardiovascular Surgery

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for cardiac surgery. This includes coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) and surgical valve replacements.

he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Carmat's investigational device exemption (IDE) application to start a U.S. early feasibility study (EFS) of its total artificial heart.

News | Heart Failure

Carmat to initiate FDA U.S. Feasibility Study of Total Artificial Heart

February 12, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Carmat's investigational device exemption ...

February 12, 2020

Raj Makkar, M.D., led a multicenter national study comparing outcomes for minimally invasive heart valve replacement to open-heart surgery. Photo by Cedars-Sinai. TAVR performs as well as surgery for aortic valve replacement.

News | Heart Valve Technology

January 31, 2020 — A new study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and other centers nationwide shows that ...

January 31, 2020

Mayo Clinic uses the Da Vinci surgical robot to perform minimally invasive mitral valve surgeries.

News | Robotic Systems

Robotic Mitral Valve Repair May Offer Benefit for Many Patients

January 20, 2020 — Research has found that repairing the mitral valve earlier, before the mitral valve prolapse ...

January 20, 2020

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

Only 1 in 4 Medicare Patients Participate in Cardiac Rehabilitation

January 15, 2020 – Too few people covered by Medicare participated in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation after a heart ...

January 15, 2020

Videos | Cath Lab

VIDEO: The Role of Intensivists on the Cardiac Critical Care Team

Haval Chweich, M.D., medical director of the cardiac critical care unit (CCU) at Tufts Medical Center, and assistant ...

January 09, 2020

Abbott announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new alternative surgical technique for Abbott's HeartMate 3 heart pump that will allow more advanced heart failure patients to avoid open heart surgery. The new, less invasive approach is designed to provide surgeons a choice in surgical method for patients receiving the HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD).

News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)

FDA Approves Less Invasive Surgical Approach for HeartMate 3 Heart Pump

January 7, 2020 — Abbott announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new alternative surgical ...

January 07, 2020

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. In early December 2019, leaders of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) withdrew their support for European practice guidelines that endorse the use of coronary stents in many patients with left main coronary artery disease.

News | Cath Lab | Dave Fornell, Editor

EXCEL Trial Authors Say European Surgery Society Claims of Bad Science Are Groundless

January 2, 2020 — In early December 2019, leaders of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) withdre ...

January 02, 2020

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

Tissue Engineering Will Disrupt Cardiovascular Implant Market

While transcatheter heart valve replacement and repair devices are growing in popularity due to their delivery and ...

December 26, 2019

News | Hemodynamic Support Devices

Abbott Recalls CentriMag Circulatory Support System After 44 Injuries and One Death

November 4, 2019 — Abbott is recalling its CentriMag Acute Circulatory Support System due to a calibration system error ...

November 04, 2019

A comparison of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) vs. angiography found a significant mismatch and showed the benefits of IVUS in venous interventions.

News | Venous Therapies

IVUS Better Than Venography to Identify Venous Stent Landing Zones

October 31, 2019 – In a large series of iliac vein stent cases, a blinded comparison found intravascular ultrasound ...

October 31, 2019

News | Cardiovascular Surgery

Michigan Hospital Improves Post-CABG Outcomes Using Proactive Amiodarone Protocol

October 23, 2019 — Proactive administration of amiodarone to patients recovering from a common heart surgery shows ...

October 23, 2019

News | Cardiovascular Surgery

Gore Block Grant Supports SVS Quality Programs

October 17, 2019 — W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. will support a new Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) initiative to ...

October 17, 2019

News | Heart Valve Technology

Study Finds Sustained Benefit for TAVR vs. SAVR at One Year

October 4, 2019 – A new analysis of the PARTNER 3 Trial data found a modest, but significant, improvement in one-year ...

October 04, 2019

News | Cath Lab

Bypass Surgery and Coronary Stenting Yield Comparable 10-Year Survival

September 25, 2019 — Ten-year survival rates are similar for bypass surgery and coronary stenting with drug-eluting ...

September 25, 2019

News | Cardiovascular Surgery

Heart and Lung Surgery Patients May Be at High Risk for Opioid Dependence

August 22, 2019 — The amount of opioids prescribed for patients after heart and lung surgery has a direct relationship ...

August 22, 2019