Andreas Brieke, M.D., director of mechanical circulatory support, heart failure physician and site principal...
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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November 7, 2018 — Here is a list of some of the key clinical trial presentations at the 2018 American Heart Association (AHA)...
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VIDEO: Predictors and Outcomes of Reverse Remodeling in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection FractionJames Januzzi, M.D., Hutter Family Professor at Harvard Medical School and a cardiologist at...
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From a cardiovascular device innovation standpoint, the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference...
A MitraClip case underway at the University of Colorado Hospital hybrid cath lab. Left to right are doctors John Carroll, Edward Gill and Dominik Wiktor.
Blog | University of Colorado Hospital | January 16, 2019
In late December, I had the opportunity to conduct an onsite visit to the...
News | Atrial Fibrillation | December 18, 2018
December 18, 2018 — Irish medical device company AuriGen Medical won the prestigious Global Innovation Award at the...
Interventional procedures have become increasingly complex with a shift from open surgical procedures to transcatheter procedures. This is a chronic total occlusion (CTO) case at the University of Colorado to reopen a bypass graft.
Blog | December 11, 2018
There are numerous factors that impact the larger picture in cardiology, especially from a buiness...
An example of artificial intelligence-aided clinical decision support software for a heart failure patient from the vendor HealthReveal. The AI pulled in relevant patient data from the electronic medical record and offers recommendations for care based on current American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines. It also offers the citations for where to find the guidelines and prescribing information for the recommended drug.
Feature | Artificial Intelligence | December 06, 2018 | Lonny Reisman, M.D.
The consistent provision of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) — care delivered according to established...
News | Pharmaceuticals | November 15, 2018
November 15, 2018 — AstraZeneca announced positive full results from the DECLARE-TIMI 58...
Videos | Heart Failure | November 15, 2018
VIDEO: Predictors and Outcomes of Reverse Remodeling in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction
James Januzzi, M.D., Hutter...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the second edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2018 Scientific Sessions this week. Chicago. It provides evidence-based recommendations for youth ages three through 17 and adults to safely get the physical activity and was a major topic of discussion. Pictured here is Russel Pate, Ph.D., Univerity Of South Carolina, chair of the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance, presenting on the main stage at AHA, with details relat d to the new guidelines.
Feature | AHA | November 20, 2018
November 7, 2018 — Here is a list of some of the key clinical trial presentations at the 2018...
News | Heart Failure | November 07, 2018
November 6, 2018 – Initial results from the real-world EMPagliflozin compaRative effectIveness and SafEty (EMPRISE)...
CHF Solutions' Aquadex FlexFlow System
News | Heart Failure | November 01, 2018
November 1, 2018 — Daxor Corp. has entered an agreement with CHF Solutions to explore clinical synergies between...
News | Heart Failure | October 29, 2018
October 29, 2018 — The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health...
A patient who received the HeartMate III LVAD system showing off his external battery pack. He served as a patient ambassador in the Abbott booth at ACC 2018. The HeartMate III, with its magnetic levitated pump, showed a big reduction in clotting over previous LVADs in a key late-breaking trial at ACC earlier this year.
Feature | Heart Failure | October 19, 2018
October 19, 2018 — Abbott announced today that the HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) has received U....
An example of the new transesophageal echo (TEE) visualization technology called TrueVue was shown at TCT 2018 for the first time. Philips’ new photo-realistic rendering is designed to offer a surgical view of cardiac structures to aid transcatheter procedural navigation. The technology also allows the lighting source to be moved around and even behind the anatomy, as demonstrated here. This video, included as part of the most innovative technologies video at TCT 2018, went viral when posted on social media during TCT 2018, and was viewed more than 167,000 times.
Blog | TCT | October 15, 2018
From a cardiovascular device innovation standpoint, the 2018...
