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Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) is a magazine that reaches more than 25,000 healthcare professionals in cardiology, interventional cardiology and cath labs across the United States. These influential buying team members rely on DAIC's award-winning editorial content and comparison charts as a unique research tool for specifying, recommending and approving technology/device purchases.

DAIC magazine won Overall Excellence Finalist/Multi-platform Package of the Year for its coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Toll on Cardiology, National. The entry won an honor mention for its coverage of the COVID pandemic. Dave Fornell is the editor of DAIC.

Feature | Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology DAIC | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

DAIC Brings Home National, Regional Honors

Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) and its sister publication Imaging Technology News (ITN) recently took ...

May 17, 2021

The Record Paradise RDN catheter uses a balloon catheter filled with water to cool the vessel wall as ultrasound-based ablation energy is delivered. It delivers a ring of ablative energy to a depth of 1-6 mm. Kirtane said it requires 2-3 sonications lasting 7 seconds each in each of the main renal arteries. #ACC21 #ACC2021 #RDN

Feature | Hypertension | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Renal Denervation Lowers Blood Pressure in Medication-Resistant Hypertension

May 16, 2021 — Two months after undergoing renal denervation (RDN) with the ReCor Paradise renal denervation system ...

May 16, 2021

The Boston Scientific Watchman device have performed better than expected in real-world patients outside of trials since it was introduced in 2015, according to data from the NCDR LAAO Registry. #ACC21 #ACC2021 #LAA #Watchman

Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

NCDR LAAO Registry Shows Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Associated With Low Rate of Stroke

May 15, 2021 - Transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) with a Boston Scientific Watchman device was ...

May 16, 2021

The combination heart failure drug sacubitril/valsartan did not significantly reduce the rate of heart failure or cardiovascular death following a heart attack compared to ramipril, an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. #ACC21 #ACC2021

News | Heart Failure

Sacubitril/Valsartan Does Not Outperform ACE Inhibitor in Preventing Heart Failure After Heart Attack

May 15, 2021 — The combination heart failure drug sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto) did not significantly reduce the rate ...

May 15, 2021

In the LAAOS III trial, surgeons could seal off the LAA during the open heart procedure using sutures, staples or approved closure devices. The image shows a SentraHeart lasso type LAA occluder about to seal off the LAA from the outside of the heart. #ACC21 #ACC2021

News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Reduces Stroke After Heart Surgery

May 15, 2021 — Patients with an elevated risk of stroke due to heart rhythm problems, or atrial fibrillation (AFib) ...

May 15, 2021

An Edward Lifesciences Sapien TAVR valve during an implant procedure on angiography. There are still questions on how to best anticoagulate TAVR patients and the ATLANTIS study found Eloquis is not a good solution.

News | Structural Heart

TAVR Anticoagulation With Apixaban Not Superior to Standard Care

May 15, 2021 — The anticoagulant apixaban (Eliquis) was not superior to standard of care following transcatheter aortic ...

May 15, 2021

There is a trend in interventional cardiology that is now being called “renalism,” where patients with poor renal function are being excluded from interventional procedures because they are automatically considered too high risk. However, some hospitals are also creating cardio-renal care teams so these patients can be cared for by a team of experts rather than interventional cardiologists going it alone. #SCAI21 #SCAI2021 Creating a card0-renal program.

Feature | Cath Lab | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Creating a Cardio-renal Program to Expand Patient Volume

There is a trend in interventional cardiology that is now being called “renalism,” where patients with poor renal ...

May 14, 2021

According to the CDC, if you are fully vaccinated you can start doing many things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic. Infographic courtesy of the CDC.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

CDC Updates Its Mask Recommendations

May 13, 2021 — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released a new statement relaxing the ...

May 13, 2021

Explaining the Emory TMVR angle. Discordance between mitral annular centerline (yellow lines) and valve orientation imposed by guidewire position within the LV apex (red dashed lines). (B) Valve intrinsic angle (α) is determined by external skirt height. (C) When annular-apical “Emory” angle (red curves) exceeds α (blue curve), annular skirt apposition is not possible, causing PVL (red arrows). (D) The valve is oriented perpendicular to the annual plane using an exteriorized apical guidewire.

Feature | Structural Heart | By Dave Fornell, Editor

The Emory Angle Can Help Eliminate Paravalvular Leak in Transcatheter Mitral Interventions

The mitral valve anatomy is extremely complex, which has caused many challenges for transcatheter mitral valve ...

May 13, 2021

Videos | Structural Heart

VIDEO: Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Has Good Outcomes at 1 Year

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratories, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and principle investigator ...

May 13, 2021

Estimates of excess deaths, defined as the number of persons who have died from all causes, above the expected number of deaths for a given place and time, can provide a comprehensive account of mortality likely related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including deaths that are both directly and indirectly associated with COVID-19

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

CDC Update on Excess Deaths Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 13, 2021 — Estimates of excess deaths, defined as the number of persons who have died from all causes, above the ...

May 13, 2021

PolyVascular, leading the effort to improve children's lives with a novel polymeric transcatheter valve (PTV) for children, announced that it was awarded a $2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant earlier this year to bring its polymeric stent-mounted valve (SMV) to clinical trials within the next two years in an effort to address pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD), which affects over 1 million patients around the world.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

PolyVascular Awarded $2 Million Small Business Innovation Research Grant to Bring the First Polymer-Based Heart Valve for Children to Clinical Trials

May 13, 2021 — PolyVascular, leading the effort to improve children's lives with a novel polymeric transcatheter valve ...

May 13, 2021

News | Endovascular Aortic Repair

Low Profile Thoracic Aortic Endograft Device Reduces Complications and Expands Patient Pool

May 12, 2021 — Preliminary results of a clinical trial, presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, showed that a ...

May 12, 2021

The BioCardia cardiac stem cell CardiAMP trial is a Phase III study looking at the efficacy of using stem cells to improve heart function in heart failure patients. It is the first trial for this technology to reach Phase III trial.

Feature | Stem Cell Therapies | By Simon H. Stertzer, M.D.

Is Cardiac Cell Therapy Worth Another Look?

Heart failure remains an unheralded global pandemic, costing society billions of dollars each year.[1,2] Projections ...

May 11, 2021

The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) have joined the International Contrast Ultrasound Society (ICUS) in recognizing the relatively low risk and important clinical benefits of ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs), which are used routinely around the world to help detect heart disease, stratify the risk of heart attack or stroke, identify and characterize tumors throughout the abdomen, and monitor the effectiveness of cancer therapies in adul

News | Contrast Media

Medical Societies Support Safety and Benefits of Ultrasound Contrast Agents

May 11, 2021 — The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE ...

May 11, 2021