June 20, 2007 —Robotic surgical technology available at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center avoids long-term use of blood thinners and problems such as infection by repairing the mitral valve instead of replacing it.

Cedars-Sinai is the largest mitral valve repair center in the Los Angeles area, completing approximately 100 repairs of different types annually.

June 19, 2007 - CryoCath Technologies Inc., a cryotherapy products company that treats cardiac arrhythmias, today announced an agreement to sell their surgical portfolio to ATS Medical in a $22 million cash transaction, to enable CryoCath to focus on its line of electrophysiology products for treating atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias, and to augment ATS’s current cardiac surgery portfol

June 19, 2007 – According to a study presented at the 18th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), screening vascular ultrasound (SVU) is effective in identifying patients with cardiovascular disease before they show symptoms.

June 19, 2007 - Stress echocardiography, a heart ultrasound performed during stress testing, is a more accurate method for identifying women at highest risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) than traditional stress testing and clinical risk factors, according to a report released at the 18th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE).

Because women often do not show the classic symptoms of heart attack, such as sweating, chest pain or shooting arm pain, it is more difficult to identify when they have blockages in arteries.

June 19, 2007 - A study published today in Circulation shows that the use of NT-proBNP (N-terminal proB-type natriuretic peptide), a biomarker by Roche Diagnostics for suspected heart failure (HF), reduced emergency department (ED) visits by 21 percent.

June 19, 20207 - An international clinical trial will test a unique pacemaker, the Medtronic EnRhythm MRI SureScan pacing system, for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems under specified scanning conditions.

June 19, 2007 – Cardica Inc. and Cook Medical today announced that they have entered into an agreement to develop and commercialize a specialized device designed to close the patent foramen ovale (PFO), a relatively common heart defect present in approximately 15 to 20 percent of the general population, which targets patients at risk for stroke or systemic embolism.

June 18, 2007 — Kensey Nash Corporation today announced that it has completed a European Union (EU) study to assess the device success, safety and performance of the ThromCat Thrombectomy Catheter System during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

June 18, 2007 – BioServe today announced that it has been selected by Houston-based Specialized Clinical Center of Research (SCCOR) for a novel study aimed at identifying the genetic cause of thoracic aortic disease, in which the company will provide SCCOR researchers with access to unique sample sets from its Global Repository of over 600,000 human DNA, tissue and serum samples linked to detail

June 18, 2007 - Kardia Health Systems launched Echocardiography Information Management System (EIMS), a web-based workflow-management software for echocardiography labs, at the ASE Scientific Sessions in Seattle June 17.

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