Medtronic plc recently received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a less-invasive implant approach of its HVAD System, a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) for patients with...
Heart Failure
This heart failure channel offers news and new technology to treat heart failure. This includes for new innovations to treat congesitive heart failure (CHF). The channel includes news on HFpEF and HFrEF.
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Partho Sengupta, M.D., DM, FACC, FASE, chief division of cardiology, director of cardiac imaging, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, explains how...
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June 4, 2018 — The U.S.
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Abbott has initiated a Class I recall of the HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist System due to a malfunction in the device’s outflow graft assembly. The company said the malfunction may cause the...
News | Heart Failure | September 07, 2018
September 7, 2018 — The antithrombin drug rivaroxaban does not reduce the risk of a composite endpoint of survival,...
News | Heart Failure | September 06, 2018
September 6, 2018 — Tafamidis is the first treatment to improve survival and reduce hospitalizations in a rare heart...
Technology | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | July 17, 2018
July 17, 2018 — Medtronic plc recently received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a less-invasive...
Image courtesy of CorWave
News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | July 11, 2018
July 11, 2018 — French-based CorWave announced that its CALYPSO program has received 14 million euros to develop...
Videos | Artificial Intelligence | July 10, 2018
Partho Sengupta, M.D., DM, FACC, FASE, chief division of cardiology, director of cardiac imaging, West Virginia...
News | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) | July 02, 2018
July 2, 2018 — University of Washington (UW) Medicine cardiologists have developed a tool to predict which...
Microtubules in heart cells from a healthy patient (left) and from a patient with heart failure. The dense network of detyrosinated microtubules impedes the motion of the failing heart cell during the heart beat. Credit: Ben Prosser lab, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
News | Heart Failure | June 25, 2018
June 25, 2018 — New research finds changes in cellular struts called microtubules (MT) can affect the stiffness of...
Feature | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | June 04, 2018
June 4, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Medtronic initiated a Class 1 recall all 204,017 of its...
News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | May 23, 2018
May 23, 2018 — Abbott has initiated a Class I recall of the HeartMate 3...
News | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices (CRT) | May 22, 2018
May 22, 2018 — Medtronic plc announced...
Image courtesy of Impulse Dynamics
News | Heart Failure | May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018 — In a new study, cardiac...
News | Heart Failure | May 16, 2018
May 16, 2018 — Israel-based V-Wave Ltd. recently closed a $70 million Series C financing for its proprietary,...
