November 10, 2021 — Shockwave Medical, a developer of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat complex calcified peripheral and coronary artery disease, announced that as part of the calendar year 2022 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reassigned the payment for peripheral IVL procedures performed on above the knee (ATK) arteries in the hospital outpatient setting. The resulting payment increases will become effective Jan.

November 10, 2021 — Ancora Heart Inc., a company developing a novel therapy to address heart failure, announced results from an analysis of multiple studies that showed positive outcomes with its investigational AccuCinch Ventricular Restoration System.

November 10, 2021 — Philips Healthcare announced North American availability of new innovations in its portfolio of cardiology solutions designed to seamlessly work together, strengthen clinical confidence, build efficiency throughout the care pathway, and improve cardiac care outcomes and experiences.

November 10, 2021 — Philips, a global leader in health technology, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Cardiologs, a France-based medical technology company focused on transforming cardiac diagnostics using artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology. Cardiologs will further strengthen Philips’ cardiac monitoring and diagnostics offering with innovative software technology, electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis and reporting services.

TCT 2021 Announces Late-Breaking Clinical Trials

November 10, 2021 — There were nine late-breaking trials and 13 late-breaking science presentations at the 2021 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF).

Due to COVID-19, the meeting will be condensed and only a limited number of attendees were being allowed to attend and they need to meet strict health safety requirements. The meeting will have both an in-person and virtual component. There is no expo floor at this year's meeting.  

November 9, 2021 — Results from the largest randomized trial available comparing different closure device strategies following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) found that a plug-based vascular closure technique had a shorter time to hemostasis, but a higher rate of access

November 9, 2021 — Utilizing a magnetically-controlled capsule endoscopy system, the double-blind, randomized OPT-PE

November 9, 2021 — Six-month outcomes from the randomized RADIANCE-HTN TRIO Trial comparing endovascular ultrasound renal denervation (RDN) to a sham procedure for treatment-resistant hypertension (HTN) found that the addition of a pharmacologic intervention led to further bloo

November 9, 2021 — The primary results of the Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography for Multivessel Evaluation (FAME) 3 trial found that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) guided by fractional flow reserve (FFR) did not meet noninferiority for one-year adverse events compared to coronary artery

November 9, 2021 — Results from SUGAR trial, a randomized, controlled, multicenter trial conducted exclusively in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and with minimum exclusion criteria, found that amphilimus-eluting stents (AES) were superior to zotarolimus-eluting stents (ZES) with regard to t

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