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.
January 15, 2020
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…
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Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) acquired by Wainscot Media
January 14, 2020
Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology Has a New Home
January 14, 2020 — Park Ridge, N.J.-based publisher Wainscot Media has acquired Diagnostic and Interventional…
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A new technology for detecting low glucose levels via electrocardiogram (ECG) using a non-invasive wearable sensor, which with the latest artificial intelligence (AI) can detect hypoglycemic events from raw ECG signals has been made by researchers from the University of Warwick.
January 13, 2020
Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Low-glucose Levels via ECG Without Fingerpick
January 13, 2020 — A new technology for detecting low glucose levels via electrocardiogram (ECG) using a non-invasive…
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tryker is launching a voluntary field action on specific units of the LifePAK 15 defibrillator/monitors. The vendor said an issue has been identified where the devices to fail to deliver a defibrillation shock after the “Shock” button on the keypad is pressed.
January 13, 2020
LifePAK 15 Defibrillators Might Fail After Shock Button is Pressed
January 13, 2020 — Stryker announced it is launching a voluntary field action on specific units of the LifePAK 15…
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This is the latest version of the MitraClip, the G4, which allows each side of the clip to be opened and closed independently to offer more flexibility when capturing the valve leaflets. The device is being used in the REPAIR MR clinical trial.
January 13, 2020
New Study Looks at MitraClip use in Moderate Surgical Risk Patients
January 13, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved clinical trial that will compare the…
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The SCCT Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Cardiovascular CT meeting will be held in New York City at the Marriott East Side, April 24-26, 2020. #SCCT
January 09, 2020
Amazon Chief Medical Officer to Speak at SCCT Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac CT Meeting
January 9, 2020 — Maulik Majmudar, M.D., chief medical officer at Amazon will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming…
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This image shows the cardiac muscle fibers of a fruit fly under magnification. Iowa State University researchers have found a way to restore the strength and regularity of cardiac muscles in aging fruit flies. Photo by Hua Bai, Iowa State University.
January 09, 2020
Fruit Fly Hearts Show How to Keep Human Cardiac Muscle Young
January 9, 2020 – Researchers may have discovered a way to turn back the clock on aging heart muscles in fruit flies, a…
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Abbott announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new alternative surgical technique for Abbott's HeartMate 3 heart pump that will allow more advanced heart failure patients to avoid open heart surgery. The new, less invasive approach is designed to provide surgeons a choice in surgical method for patients receiving the HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD).
January 07, 2020
FDA Approves Less Invasive Surgical Approach for HeartMate 3 Heart Pump
January 7, 2020 — Abbott announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new alternative surgical…
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Figure 1 from the new ASE ischemia cardiac ultrasound imaging guidelines, showing a side-by-side views of apical 4- and 2-chamber images, at rest and immediately post-exercise. In the four-chamber view, the left ventricle is shown on the left-hand side of the screen. With exercise, the echocardiogram shows the LV cavity dilates (right quadrants) and there are regional wall motion abnormalities in the LAD territory.
January 07, 2020
New Guidelines for Stress Echocardiography in Ischemic Heart Disease
January 7, 2020 — The  American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) has updated its guidelines for using echocardiography…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) from AstraZeneca and granted priority review for dapagliflozin (Farxiga) to reduce the risk of cardiovascular (CV) death or the worsening of heart failure (HF) in adults with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) with and without type 2 diabetes (T2D).
January 07, 2020
Dapagliflozin Granted FDA Priority Review for Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction
January 7, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a supplemental new drug application (sNDA)…
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The top two articles on DAIC from 2019 included the FDA approval of two transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) systems for all surgical risk categories, making TAVR available to all patients based on recommendations by the heart team. The second biggest story of 2019 was the release of new atrial fibrillation guidelines recommend novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) over the previous standard of care warfarin.
January 03, 2020
The Most Popular Cardiology Topics in 2019
January 3, 2020 — Here are the top 25 cardiology articles on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC)…
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People watch the live presentation of the five-year EXCEL Trial data by Gregg Stone, M.D., in the Abbott booth at TCT 2019. Abbott makes the Xience stent used in the trial, which compared equally with long-term CABG surgical outcomes. In early December 2019, leaders of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) withdrew their support for European practice guidelines that endorse the use of coronary stents in many patients with left main coronary artery disease.
Dave Fornell, Editor
January 02, 2020
EXCEL Trial Authors Say European Surgery Society Claims of Bad Science Are Groundless
January 2, 2020 — In early December 2019, leaders of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS)…
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This photo is from a MitraClip procedure during the University of Colorado visit last December.
Dave Fornell, Editor
December 30, 2019
Top 25 Cardiology Videos on DAIC in 2019
Here are the top performing 25 videos posted to the DAIC website in the past year, based on Google Analytics. These the…
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December 30, 2019
Merit Medical Announces its EVOlution in Radial Hemostasis in Europe
December 30, 2019 — Merit Medical Systems Inc., a leading manufacturer of proprietary devices used primarily in…
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ElectroSonix
December 30, 2019
ElectroSonix Licenses University of Arizona Patents for Acoustoelectric Imaging
December 30, 2019 — Acoustoelectric cardiac imaging, a new, noninvasive cardiac imaging technology developed at the…
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Christie Ballantyne
December 30, 2019
Study Finds Drug Therapy for High Triglycerides to Have a Sustained Effect Using Low Dosages
December 30, 2019 — A drug therapy targeting the production of a protein produced by the liver has led to sustained and…
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Cath Lab Philips Azurion angiography PCI
December 30, 2019
Study: Patients Overestimate Benefits of PCI
December 30, 2019 — Most patients do not understand or recall information given to them before heart procedures. For…
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eko chest shot
December 30, 2019
Eko Announces Redesigned CORE Product Line
December 30, 2019 — Eko, a digital health company with an AI-powered cardiac screening platform, announced the second…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two applications for the first generics of the anticoagulant Eliquis (apixaban).
December 27, 2019
FDA Clears First Generics for Eliquis
December 27, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two applications for the first generics of…
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The Wyss Translational Center in Zurich, Switzerland has developed the LifeMatrix platform to engineer tissues that can be implanted in patients and will grow with them. This technology is being developed for heart valves in younger patients to eliminate the need for repeat surgeries to implant larger prosthetic heart valves as the patient grows.
December 26, 2019
Tissue Engineering Will Disrupt Cardiovascular Implant Market
While transcatheter heart valve replacement and repair devices are growing in popularity due to their delivery and…
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