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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.

New SIR position statement and quality documents highlight interventional radiology effective use of nonsurgical ablation to treat kidney cancer in selected patients

News | Interventional Radiology

Interventional Radiologists Increasingly Using Ablation to Treat Kidney Cancer

February 4, 2020 — For some patients, kidney cancer can be effectively treated without surgery, according to the Society ...

February 04, 2020

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a the CATALYST trial designed to assess Abbott's Amplatzer Amulet left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder for people with atrial fibrillation (AF or AFib).

News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

Amplatzer Amulet LAA Occluder Will be Compared to Anticoagulants in CATALYST Trial

February 3, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a the CATALYST trial designed to assess ...

February 03, 2020

The Abbott Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system, left, became the first TMVR device to gain commercial regulatory clearance in the world. It gains European CE mark in January. Another top story in January was the first use of the Robocath R-One robotic cath lab catheter guidance system in Germany. Watch a VIDEO of the system in use in one of those cases.

News | Dave Fornell, Editor

February 3, 2020 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) m ...

February 03, 2020

Raj Makkar, M.D., led a multicenter national study comparing outcomes for minimally invasive heart valve replacement to open-heart surgery. Photo by Cedars-Sinai. TAVR performs as well as surgery for aortic valve replacement.

News | Heart Valve Technology

January 31, 2020 — A new study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and other centers nationwide shows that ...

January 31, 2020

Thoracic abdominal aortic stent graft used to treat Type B aortic dissections (TBAD). The STS and SVS released new reporting standards for TBAD.

News | Endovascular Aortic Repair

New Reporting Standards for Type B Aortic Dissections

January 31, 2020 – The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) released new reporting ...

January 31, 2020

Abbott Tendyne TMVR, TMVI system received European CE mark clearance in January 2020. The Abbott Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system uses an anchor attached to the apex of the heart with a whether line attached to the valve. This helps to keep the valve anchored in the mitral annulus and prevent embolization. This anchor system was used because, unlike the aortic valve, the mitral valve has a very thin landing zone to secure the valve. Prevents LVOT obstruction.

Feature | Heart Valve Technology

World's First Transcatheter Mitral Valve Approved in Europe

January 30, 2020 — The Abbott Tendyne Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation (TMVI) system received European CE mark ...

January 30, 2020

The researchers used high resolution cross-sectional imaging with CT or MRI to assess 225 men with abdominal aortic aneurysm. Follow-up lasted, on average, more than three years. Slightly more than half of patients had an intraluminal thrombus. The aneurysms of those with intraluminal thrombus were larger at baseline and grew by a rate of 2 mm per year, twice as fast as the 1 mm per year growth rate in people without intraluminal thrombus.

News | Endovascular Aortic Repair

Rapid Aortic Aneurysm Growth Occurs in Presence of Blood Clot

January 29, 2020 – The presence of a blood clot on the wall of the aorta in people with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) ...

January 29, 2020

Videos | Heart Valve Technology

VIDEO: Overview of the TAVR Program at Tufts Medical Center

Interview with Andrew Weintraub, M.D., FACC, associate director, of the Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Center ...

January 28, 2020

Videos | Hemodynamic Support Devices

VIDEO: Tufts Uses a Hemodynamic Support Algorithm to Determine What Devices to Use

Navin Kapur, M.D., FAHA, FACC, FSCAI, director, Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Program and executive director of ...

January 24, 2020

This is an example of artificial intelligence automation for cardiac MRI using an AI app from TeraRecon's Envoy AI marketplace. The GE MRI image has bee countoured, anatomy labeled and all quantification automated by the AI, greatly reducing post-processing time. See this and other new AI imaging technologies from the 2019 RSNA meeting.

Blog

8 Cardiovascular Technologies to Watch in 2020

The key question I am always asked at cardiology conferences is what are the trends and interesting new technologies I ...

January 24, 2020

Feature | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

Why Structured Reporting is Needed in Cardiology

Cardiology was already heavily data driven, where clinical practice is driven by clinical study data, but mining a ...

January 23, 2020

The BioVentrix Revivent TC transcatheter device anchors that help cinch the heart mucsle using a transcatheter procedure to treat left ventricular remodeling associated with heart failure following a heart attack. BioVentrix Inc., developer of the first transcatheter device for left ventricular remodeling after a heart attack, announced the extension of its European CE mark approval for the Revivent TC Transcatheter Ventricular Enhancement System for heart failure to May 2024.

News

BioVentrix CE Mark Extended for Less Invasive Heart Failure Ventricular Enhancement

January 22, 2020 – BioVentrix Inc., developer of the first transcatheter device for left ventricular remodeling after a ...

January 22, 2020

Tufts Medical Center cath lab team performing an ECMO cannulation for hemodynamic support.

360 Photos | 360 View Photos

360 View of ECMO Cannulation Procedure at Tufts Medical Center

A venous-venous (VV) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) implantation procedure in a cath lab at Tufts Medical ...

January 21, 2020

Mayo Clinic uses the Da Vinci surgical robot to perform minimally invasive mitral valve surgeries.

News | Robotic Systems

Robotic Mitral Valve Repair May Offer Benefit for Many Patients

January 20, 2020 — Research has found that repairing the mitral valve earlier, before the mitral valve prolapse ...

January 20, 2020

Congestive heart failure patient Dorothy Moore committed herself to cardiac rehabilitation and increasing the amount of exercise she did and was able to reverse her heart failure class. She was a patient at the DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit.

News | Cardiac Rehabilitation

Only 1 in 4 Medicare Patients Participate in Cardiac Rehabilitation

January 15, 2020 – Too few people covered by Medicare participated in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation after a heart ...

January 15, 2020