Cardiovascular Surgery

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

Heartware HVAD recall for its ventricular assist device from Medtronic
Feature | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)

May 5, 2017 — Medtronic Mechanical Circulatory Support is expanding its recall of its HeartWare Ventricular Assist ...

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May 4, 2017 — Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigators have learned how cardiac muscle cells react to a certain type ...

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May 2, 2017 — The recently formed group Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERACS) hosted an organizing session in ...

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May 1, 2017 — ClearFlow Inc. has received the prestigious 2017 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

April 20, 2017 — Mitral regurgitation can occur in up to 50 percent of patients with ischemic heart disease and even ...

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News | Pharmaceuticals

March 28, 2017 — When used as a preventive measure during heart surgery, the heart failure drug levosimendan did not ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Michael Reardon, M.D., professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center ...

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Cardiogard embolic protection system for surgical valve reaplacement
Feature | Embolic Protection Devices

March 22, 2017 — Two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared embolic protection systems designed to remove ...

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Technology | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

March 22, 2017 — Aegis Medical Innovations Inc. announced that it has received Investigational Device Exemption approval ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell

March 17, 2017 - Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was found to be noninferior to surgical aortic valve ...

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Blog | HIMSS

Information technology (IT) is among the least sexy areas to cover in medical technology advances, and is often ...

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Videos | HIMSS

ITN Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most innovative new technology that was displayed on the expo floor ...

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News | Cardiovascular Surgery

February 16, 2017 — Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) cardiothoracic surgeons Cary Passik, M.D., and Robert ...

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heart team, hybird OR, structural heart team
Feature | Hybrid OR | Dave Fornell

In the current era of healthcare reform and the push toward evidence-based medicine to both lower costs and improve ...

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

February 9, 2017 — Janssen Research & Development LLC (Janssen) announced that the Phase 3 COMPASS trial is stopping ...

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