Videos | Cardiovascular Business | September 14, 2020
Nick West, M.D., chief medical officer for Abbott, explains the details from a survey of 1,400 patients, physicians and...
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 11, 2020
September 11, 2020 — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched two of three adaptive clinical trials...
News | Heart Valve Technology | September 11, 2020
September 11, 2020 – Medtronic announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of an early feasibility study...
Videos | Radial Access | September 11, 2020
Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center has opened one of the region’s first radial lounges in its Gagnon...

The Opimax TiNO bio-active coated stent made by Hexacath.
News | September 10, 2020
September 5, 2020 – The TIDES-ACS Randomized Controlled Trial results were published end of July 2020 confirming the...
Videos | Drug-Eluting Balloons | September 09, 2020
Juan F. Granada, M.D., CEO of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) worked on preclinical development work for a...
News | Vena Cava Filters | September 09, 2020
September 9, 2020 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) published new clinical practice guidelines that...

A conformal array of flexible electrodes affixed to an inflated balloon catheter. The sensors have the ability to make measurements of temperature, force of contact and electrophysiological parameters, ability to customize diagnostic and therapeutic functions and offer real-time feedback. Photo by John Rogers, Northwestern University.
News | EP Lab | September 08, 2020
September 8, 2020 — Researchers developed a new class of medical instruments equipped with an advanced soft electronics...
September 4, 2020 — The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) granted a New Technology Add-on Payment (...

Abbott Espirit BTK Bioresorbable stent, or bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) measures 99 microns and is made from poly-L-lactide (PLLA), a semi-crystalline bioresorbable polymer engineered to resist vessel recoil and provide a platform for drug delivery.
Feature | Stents Bioresorbable | September 03, 2020
September 3, 2020 — Abbott today announced the start of the LIFE-BTK clinical trial to evaluate the safety and...
September 2, 2020 — An international, first-of-its-kind cardiology trial used personalized genetic testing to reduce by...
Videos | TCT | August 01, 2020
With COVID-19 forcing all medical conferences to go virtual in 2020, Juan F. Granada, M.D., CEO of the Cardiovascular...

The Morristown Medical Center radial lounge uses recliner chairs rather than hospital beds for patients recovering from cath lab procedures using transradial access. The vascular access technique allows patients to immediately walk off the cath lab table following a procedure and they can use the bathroom and walk around during recovery. This is rapidly becoming the preferred access route in cath labs as opposed to the long-used standard of care of femoral artery access in the groin, which required hours of being immobilized in a hospital bed after the procedure, an usually an overnight stay at the hospital.
News | Radial Access | August 25, 2020
August 25, 2020 – Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center has opened one of the region’s first radial...

Navin Kapur, M.D., FAHA, FACC, FSCAI, executive director, The CardioVascular Center for Research and Innovation (CVCRI), explains the concpet of the Door-to-Unloading (DTU) Trial he is heading, one of several innovations at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Kapur is also director, Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Program; director, interventional research laboratories; director of Cardiac Biology Research Center, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI), Tufts Medical Center. Photo by Dave Fornell
Feature | Tufts Medical Center | August 21, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
The cardiology program at Tufts Medical Center in Boston is internationally recognized for being on the forefront of...

Boston Scientific recently introduced the newst iteration of LAA occluder device, the Watchman FLX. It uses small spikes to help better anchor the device and prevent embolization. Read more on this FDA approval.
August 21, 2020 — According to a report published by Research Dive, the rising number of patients suffering from atrial...