The cardiology program at Tufts Medical Center in Boston is...
Heart Failure
This heart failure channel offers news and new technology to treat heart failure. This includes for new innovations to treat congestive heart failure (CHF). The channel includes news on HFpEF and HFrEF. Heart failure occurs when the heart is no longer able to pump as much blood as the body requires. This can lead to enlargement of the heart because the muscle works harder to supply blood, but the pumping is ineffective. This may be due to defects in the myocardium, such as an infarct, or due to structural issues such as severe valve regurgitation. The disease is divided into four New York Heart Association (NYHA) classes. Stage IV heart failure is when the heart is completely failing and requires a heart transplant or a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).
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August 21, 2020 — The U.S.
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August 3, 2020 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) magazine we
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June 30, 2020 — BioCardia, Inc. announced that the company has resumed cases in the...
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | September 08, 2020
September 8, 2020 - Heart patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) can safely continue taking angiotensin-...
Navin Kapur, M.D., FAHA, FACC, FSCAI, executive director, The CardioVascular Center for Research and Innovation (CVCRI), explains the concpet of the Door-to-Unloading (DTU) Trial he is heading, one of several innovations at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Kapur is also director, Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Program; director, interventional research laboratories; director of Cardiac Biology Research Center, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI), Tufts Medical Center. Photo by Dave Fornell
Feature | Tufts Medical Center | August 21, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
The cardiology program at Tufts Medical Center in Boston is internationally recognized for being on the forefront of...
The Medtronic Heartware and Abbott Heartmate 3 LVADs and others currently cleared by the FDA might be easier to use in Medicare advanced heart failure patients under new guidelines proposed by CMS. Photo by Dave Fornell
Feature | Heart Failure | August 21, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
August 21, 2020 — The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed updates to coverage policies for...
Photo of Eyes Predicts Death and Readmission in Heart Failure Patients. Getty Images.
News | Heart Failure | August 17, 2020
August 17, 2020 — Pupil size predicts death and hospital readmission in patients with heart failure, according to...
News | Remote Monitoring | August 05, 2020
August 5, 2020 – NorthShore University HealthSystem , Carnegie Mellon University and physIQ are collaborating on a...
Examples of allogeneic cardiac cells (also called cardiosphere-derived cells or CDCs), that were used to treat heart attack infarcts to reverse heart failure in the ALLSTAR trial.
News | Heart Failure | August 04, 2020
August 4, 2020 - More than three years after a clinical trial was prematurely ended for failing to show progress in...
Two of the top pieces of content in July included the FDA clearance for the new Watchman FLX left atrial appendage occluder (left), which includes a video interview with one of the trial investigators. COVID-19 content remained among the top content in July, and one story explained the odd pattern of cardiac cell death in COVID-19 patient autopsies.
Feature | August 03, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
August 3, 2020 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC)...
News | Pharmaceuticals | July 28, 2020
July 28, 2020 — AstraZeneca's heart failure medication dapagliflozin (Farxiga) significantly reduced the worsening of...
News | Heart Failure | July 09, 2020
July 9, 2020 – The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF) is conducting additional research on a novel hydrogel...
News | Heart Failure | June 30, 2020
June 30, 2020 — BioCardia, Inc. announced that the company has resumed cases in the CardiAMP Heart Failure Trial. The...
Navin Kapur, M.D., Tufts Medical Center, shows preCardia device and its anatomical positioning in the patient.
News | Heart Failure | June 23, 2020
June 23, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Program status for the...
Russian interventional cardiologist Alexey Pankov in full personal protective equipment (PPE) for a cath lab procedure in Moscow during the COVID-19 era. Right, an image of the COVID-19 virus from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Novel coronavirus has turned out to have a sizable amount of cardiovascular involvement.
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 05, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
It was originally thought novel coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) was primarily a respiratory disorder, but as larger...
News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) | May 29, 2020
May 29, 2020 — Medtronic is recalling its HeartWare HVAD left ventricular assist device (LVAD) pump outflow graft and...
News | Artificial Heart | May 27, 2020
May 27, 2020 — Carmat, a developer of the of a next generation advanced total artificial heart, announces the first...
Feature | ACC | April 09, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
Here is the list of American College of Cardiology (ACC) practice-changing late-breaking study presentations at the ACC...
