
Flexible electronics have been developed to implant in patients to constantly monitor their cardiac condition.
Feature | October 09, 2020 | Udi Nussinovitch M.D., Ph.D.
This is an overview of some of the biggest cardiology technology advances. These innovations are covered in more detail...

The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai is working with the Keck Medicine of USC heart surgery team to expand care for children and adults with congenital heart disease. An echocardiographer helps with cardiac ultrasound imaging in a hybrid OR during a congenital case using a Siemens SC2000 imaging system. Photo by Cedars-Sinai.
News | Congenital Heart | August 10, 2020
August 10, 2020 - The Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai is expanding...

Left, the Melody pulmonary valve was the first transcatheter valve to be approved by the FDA in the United States a decade ago. Right, the Harmony transcatheter valve is in trials and is designed to treat patients with RVOT anomalies who develop severe PR typically when a pervious repair fails. Both valves are used to treat congenital heart defects.
News | Congenital Heart | May 21, 2020
May 21, 2020 — Two late-breaking clinical trials on trans catheter valves to treat congenital heart disease were...

A congenital atrial septal defect closed using a transcatheter occluder, visualized on 3-D TEE ultrasound.
News | Congenital Heart | May 04, 2020
May 4, 2020 – The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has released a position statement on...
Karen Ordovas, M.D., MAS, professor of radiology and cardiology at the University of California San Francisco (UCFS)...
News | Congenital Heart | October 24, 2019
October 24, 2019 — Investigators at the University of Arizona Steele Children's Research Center are leading a statewide...
News | Congenital Heart | September 20, 2019
September 20, 2019 – Abbott announced approvals in Europe for two of its pediatric devices — the Masters HP 15mm...
News | Heart Failure | September 20, 2019
September 20, 2019 — The new Max and Debra Ernst Heart Center at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich., will open Sept....
News | Hypertension | July 29, 2019
July 29, 2019 — High blood pressure among children is on the rise and a lack of research about how to treat it has...
News | Congenital Heart | July 16, 2019
July 16, 2019 — Elevated blood pressure and cholesterol levels in young adulthood may lead to an increased risk of...

Image courtesy of Flinders University
July 9, 2019 — South Australian researchers are developing a tiny fiber-optic sensor, which has the potential to change...
David M. Axelrod, M.D., clinical associate professor in pediatrics (cardiology) at Stanford School of Medicine,...
Videos | Artificial Intelligence | June 18, 2019
Anthony Chang, M.D., chief artificial intelligence officer, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), and founder,...
Technology | Structural Heart Occluders | June 10, 2019
June 10, 2019 – W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) premarket...
News | Congenital Heart | June 03, 2019
June 3, 2019 — Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found higher blood pressure and...