The Transmedics Organ Care System (OCS) Heart, or “Heart in a Box,” enables transplant surgeons to travel to much farther destinations to procure transplant hearts by acting as a miniature intensive care unit that keeps the heart alive.
April 05, 2021
Heart in a Box Technology Expands Heart Transplant Window
April 5, 2021 — Smidt Heart Institute transplant surgeons Dominic Emerson, M.D., and Pedro Catarino, M.D. know how to…
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The new ACC Electrophysiology (EP) Device Implant Registry, part of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) will include data on implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) procedures previously captured in the NCDR ICD Registry, as well as provide the flexibility to capture novel pacemaker procedures. The registry is aligned with the ACC’s Electrophysiology Accreditation program, fully supporting the program’s data requirements.
April 02, 2021
ACC Launches NCDR Electrophysiology Device Implant Registry
April 2, 2021 — Today, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) launched the Electrophysiology (EP) Device Implant…
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Polar maps demonstrating MBF, uptake, and retention along with their relationship to traditional relative MPI. 
April 01, 2021
ASNC and SNMMI Issue Guide for Using PET Myocardial Blood Flow to Improve Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis
April 1, 2021 – The ability to measure myocardial blood flow (MBF) as part of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is one…
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The most popular content this past month included the release of the list of ACC 2021 late-breaking studies, the first AF patients treated with a new pulsed field ablation system, a blog on how the recently FDA cleared coronary lithotripsy balloon system may become a paradigm shift in the cath lab, and the development of engineered tissue valves that can grow with younger patients. 
By Dave Fornell, Editor
April 01, 2021
Most Popular Cardiology Technology Content in March 2021
April 1, 2021 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC)…
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Researchers found a relationship between stress-associated neurobiological activity on 18F-FDG PET-CT imaging and risk for subsequent Takotsubo syndrome impacting the heart.
March 31, 2021
PET-CT Shows Stressed Brain Linked to Broken Heart
March 31, 2021 — Heightened activity in the brain, caused by stressful events, is linked to the risk of developing a…
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cImage Inc. celebrates its cloud partnership with Digirad Health after a year of successful deployment of PICOM365 for mobile imaging. Digirad’s fleet of mobile SPECT, echocardiology, vascular and general ultrasound units combined with PICOM365’s cloud image management workflow leverage each company’s strengths to create an exemplary reading and reporting environment.
March 31, 2021
ScImage Cloud Partnership With Digirad Aids Flow of Nuclear and Echo Imaging
March 31, 2021 — ScImage Inc. celebrates its cloud partnership with Digirad Health after a year of successful…
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Driven by pandemic realities and clinical demand for portable and intelligent point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), GE Healthcare unveiled Venue Fit, a streamlined and compact POCUS system, alongside an industry-first artificial intelligence (AI) offering for cardiac imaging on the Venue and Venue Go. The Venue Fit is the smallest system in GE Healthcare’s Venue Family, featuring an easy-to-clean touchscreen, intuitive scanning tools, and a small footprint designed to fit in tight spaces often found in point-of
March 31, 2021
GE Healthcare Expands Ultrasound Family with New Point of Care System and AI Offering
March 31, 2021 — Driven by pandemic realities and clinical demand for portable and intelligent point-of-care ultrasound…
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The Medtronic Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV) System. It is first in the world non-surgical heart valve to treat pediatric and adult patients with a native or surgically-repaired right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) to stop severe pulmonary valve regurgitation caused by congenital heart disease.
By Dave Fornell, Editor
March 26, 2021
FDA Clears First Device to Treat Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Congenital Heart Disease
March 26, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Medtronic Harmony Transcatheter…
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The March April 2021 issue of DAIC, Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology magazine, Dave Fornell is the editor.
March 26, 2021
The DAIC March-April 2021 Digital Edition
View the March-April 2021 digital edition of Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) magazine, including links…
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Virtual tour views of a University of Colorado cath lab during a CTO procedure (top left), the new robotic EP lab at Banner Health (top right), a bi-plane EP/cath combo lab at Baylor Heart Hospital Dallas (bottom left, and an ECMO procedure at Tufts Medical Center cath lab. Photos by Dave Fornell
March 25, 2021
Virtual Tours of Cath and EP Labs
There is a lot of interest in how other hospitals organize and equip their cardiac cath labs and electrophysiology (EP…
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Neonates and young pediatric patients with congenital heart disease have few options for implantable electrophysiology (EP) devices like pacemakers or ICDs.
March 24, 2021
Critical Need for Pediatric Electrophysiology Devices is Focus of Medical Device Competition 
March 24, 2021 — Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects six out of 1,000 babies born in the U.S. each year and is often…
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PA pressure-guided heart failure management is fast becoming the standard of care in NYHA Class III patients. The Cordella Pulmonary Artery Pressure Sensor enables clinicians to remotely monitor and proactively adjust therapy and medications remotely without the need for office visits.
March 24, 2021
100th Patient Implanted With Cordella Pulmonary Artery Pressure Sensor For Proactive, Remote Heart Failure Management
March 24, 2021 — Endotronix Inc., a digital health and medical technology company working on advancements in treating…
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Top left, electromechanical wave imaging (EWI) isochrone renderings showing the activation points of the myocardium based on echocardiography axial strain measurements. Bottom right, EWI images overlaid on patient's CT scan of the heart.
March 23, 2021
New Ultrasound Technique Helps Pinpoint Source of Arrhythmias
March 23, 2021 — Researchers at Columbia University are using cardiac ultrasound to improve the critical need to…
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Early detection of high-risk plaque phenotypes holds the promise to prevent myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke by enabling personalized therapeutics. The company Elucid has developed AI to identify these atherosclerotic plaque phenotypes from a CT scan.
March 23, 2021
Study Demonstrates AI Can Estimate RNA Expression From Cardiac CT Scan
March 23, 2021 — Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, have published the first-of-its-kind…
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) can potentiate all 3 sides of Virchow’s Triad of coagulopathy, including endothelial dysfunction, blood flow stasis, and hypercoagulability. Angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE-2)–dependent viral entry and the virus-induced inflammatory response can lead to endothelial dysfunction. Clotting Prevention in COVID-19 Patients, Thrombosis Prevention in COVID-19 Patients, Preventing blood clots in COVID-19 patients
By Dave Fornell, Editor
March 22, 2021
Overview of Trials for Anticoagulation Therapy for COVID-19 Patients
A comprehensive review or more than 80 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating how to best manage optimal…
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University of Minnesota researchers used a hybrid of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to create heart valves that can grow with the recipient. When implanted in lambs, researchers showed that the tri-tube valves worked better than current animal-derived valves with almost none of the calcification or blood clotting that the other valves showed. This can be implanted in pediatric patients with congenital heart diseas. Photo from Syedain, et al., Tranquillo Lab, University of Minnesota
March 18, 2021
Lab-created Heart Valves Can Grow With the Patient
March 18, 2020 — A groundbreaking new study led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers from both the…
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Vscan Air, a pocket-sized ultrasound from GE Healthcare, enters the market as one of the smallest and lightweight handheld devices without compromising crystal clear image quality and secure data sharing. The vScan is a point of care ultrasound (POCUS).
March 18, 2021
GE Healthcare Unveils Vscan Air Wireless Handheld Ultrasound
March 18, 2021 — GE Healthcare this week unveiled Vscan Air, a cutting-edge, wireless pocket-sized ultrasound that…
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Boston Scientific's TheraSphere Y-90 Glass Microspheres enable selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT), or radioembolization, for hepatocellular carcinoma. This treats liver cancer with low toxicity using millions of microscopic glass beads containing radioactive yttrium (Y-90), delivered directly to liver tumors via catheter. The result in minimal radiation exposure to surrounding healthy tissue.
March 18, 2021
FDA Clears Boston Scientific TheraSphere Y-90 Transcatheter Liver Embolization Microspheres
March 18, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Boston Scientific's TheraSphere Y-90 Glass…
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Integrating data from an array of implantable EP devices from different vendors can be difficult or require disconnected silos of data for different vendors. One solution that was recently introduced to integrate data from various vendors is the Optimize EP software, which allows viewing data from all device vendors in one platform to streamline workflows.
By Maninder Bedi, M.D.
March 17, 2021
The Future of Remote Monitoring is Streamlining of Cardiac Device Data Management
A few weeks ago, a patient of mine experienced a cardiac event — his heart stopped. Completely. However, his…
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MRI scan of a damaged heart. Blue means reduced blood flow, orange is good blood flow. In this figure the inferior part of the heart shows dark blue, so the myocardial blood flow is very reduced. The angiogram shows the coronary artery which supplies the blood to this part of the heart is occluded. The three colored MRI images show different slices of the heart — the basal mid and apical slices. Image courtesy of European Heart Journal #COVID #COVID19
March 17, 2021
Heart Damage Found in More Than Half of COVID-19 Patients Discharged From Hospitals
March 17, 2021 — Around 50% of patients who have been hospitalized with severe COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and have damage to…
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