The first patient has been enrolled in the Medtronic Dissection Trial, which evaluates the clinical performance of the Valiant Thoracic Stent Graft with the Captivia Delivery System for the treatment of acute, complicated Type B aortic dissection, a serious cardiovascular condition associated with high morbidity and mortality.

August 13, 2010 – A rotary blood pump designed for long-term patient support had another patient surpass four years after receiving the left ventricular assist device (LVAD). Helga Gieseke, 66, who lives in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany is now one of the longest-living heart failure recipients of Terumo Heart’s DuraHeart Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS).

August 12, 2010 - Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital heart rhythm specialists recently gave a 34-year-old man an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) that did not require X-ray assistance to install the usual lead wires to the heart.

August 12, 2010 – A 52-year-old male heart failure patient in Krakow, Poland, became the first human to receive the PliCath HF System for an epicardial catheter-based ventricular reconstruction (ECVR). The device is designed to treat heart failure (HF) by reducing the enlarged left ventricle (LV) through an anchoring system that is delivered across the cardiac chambers.

August 11, 2010 – Development of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system built into an angioplasty balloon is described in the journal Review of Scientific Instruments, which is published by the American Institute of Physics, holds the potential to greatly improve angioplasty.


August 11, 2010 – The Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital recently implanted a patient with two of the smallest experimental ventricular assist devices (VADs) currently available for study in humans. VADs are designed to assist either the right (RVAD) or left (LVAD) ventricle, or both (BiVAD) at once.

August 11, 2010 – New sizes of the SoloPath TransFemoral Endovascular Access Catheter were recently cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The new sizes provide the potential to treat a larger patient population.

August 11, 2010 – More than 50 percent of cardiologists in a recent survey gave the health reform bill unsatisfactory marks, grading it as a D or an F. Only 1 percent of cardiologists graded it as an A and only 15 percent as a B.

August 11, 2010 – Based on its recent analysis of the computed tomography (CT) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Siemens Healthcare with the 2010 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership of the Year.

August 10, 2010 - A cardiovascular image reporting, consulting and training company in Brazil, entered into a multi-user 3Di software licensing contract with Shina Systems.

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