Cardiovascular Surgery

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

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July 19, 2011 — An article published in the July issue of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation reports the ...

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June 29, 2011 – For the first time, human blood vessels grown in a laboratory from donor skin cells have been ...

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June 21, 2011 – The St. Francis Heart Center in Indianapolis, Ind. announced that it has performed the first post-U.S ...

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June 15, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corp. has issued a class ...

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June 3, 2011 -- Maquet Cardiovascular announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company ...

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May 3, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given 510(k) clearance to Maquet Cardiovascular’s ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and conventional surgery in ...

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April 22, 2011 – A new study found that coronary artery bypass surgery added to medical therapy for selected ...

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April 22, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Trifecta valve, by St. Jude Medical ...

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In the largest randomized, multicenter trial to compare drug-eluting stents (DES) and bare-metal stents (BMS) placed in ...

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April 8, 2011 – A Canadian research team found that the radial artery outperformed the saphenous vein as the best ...

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The transcatheter MitraClip mitral valve repair system continues to compare favorably with conventional open-heart ...

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A study from a South Korean research team found that angioplasty with a sirolimus-eluting stent was non-inferior to ...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week released its February list of device and technology ...

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March 31, 2011 – Accurately navigating and interpreting cardiovascular anatomy for precise device deployment is a ...

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