CardiAQ Valve Technologies announced it successfully implanted its second-generation transcatheter mitral valve (TMVI) using the company’s newly added transapical delivery system. The transapical TMVI procedure was performed on an 88-year-old female suffering from severe mitral regurgitation (MR 4+) at The Heart Centre, Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Alere announced a class I recall of its INRatio2 PT/INR professional test strips, part of the Alere lNRatio2 PT/INR monitoring system (professional use) which also consists of the INRatio2 monitor. This recall is expected to cause a shortage of test strips for the Alere INRatio2 professional PT/INR testing. Alere will transition customers from the current Alere INRatio2 PT/INR professional test strip to the Alere INRatio PT/INR test strip, which is not affected by the recall and is used by patient self-testers for home INR monitoring but has also been validated for professional use.

2013 Ultrasound Market Report Klein Biomedical Consultants Inc.

According to The Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound Market in the USA: Challenges & Opportunities in the New Millennium, 2013 report, the U.S. ultrasound market grew almost 3 percent last year compared to 2012 to reach an all-time high of $1.44 billion. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted market clearance to the CardioMEMS Heart Failure System, the first FDA-approved heart failure (HF) monitoring device shown in clinical trials to significantly reduce hospital admissions.

Boston Scientific REPRISE II Clinical Trial Six-month Results Lotus Valve

Further validating its advanced transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) technology, the Boston Scientific Corp. Lotus Valve System continued to demonstrate impressive performance at six months, according to new data presented at EuroPCR 2014 in Paris.

Dassault Systèmes the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3-D design software, 3-D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, unveiled the world’s first 3-D realistic simulation model of a whole human heart. 

A federal grant will support a pilot project designed by two chapters of the American College of Cardiology to reduce health care costs by providing tools to help doctors and patients communicate about options for their care while helping physicians apply the latest guidelines to the decision-making process.

CT image showing calcium along a coronary artery. CT calcium scoring aggregates a score based on all of these deposits to assess a patient's overall risk of having a heart attack.
CT image showing calcium along a coronary artery. All the major CT vendors off plaque characterization software to ID plaques and calcium based on Hounsfield units. CT calcium scoring aggregates a score based on all of these deposits to assess a patient's overall risk of having a heart attack.
CT calcium scoring. CT offers views of the coronaries to see if there are any obstructions and if the vessels contain plaque.

There has been growing clinical evidence to show computed tomography (CT) coronary artery calcium scoring shows a close correlation with a person’s long-term risk for heart disease. This data convinced the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to include CT calcium scoring in its revised guidelines for prevention and cholesterol released last fall. In addition, the ACC highlighted the evidence for CT calcium scoring as a late breaking session at its 63rd Annual Scientific Session in March.

 
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