July 27, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation (BDD) to a laser-assisted inferior vena cava (IVC) filter removal device developed by Philips Healthcare. The proposed device is intended for ablating tissue to remove an IVC filter when previous methods of remove it have failed.

July 27, 2021 -- Cardiovascular diseases account for 32% of global deaths. Myocardial infarction, or heart attacks, play a large part in heart diseases and the necrosis of cardiac tissue after blood supply is decreased or stopped.

In APL Bioengineering, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea take stock of stem cell-laden 3-D bioprinted cardiac patch technologies and their efficacy as a therapeutic and regenerative approach for ischemic cardiomyopathy in reversing scar formation and promoting myocardial regeneration.[1]

July 27, 2021 — Medtronic announced new data from the landmark WRAP-IT study published in Heart Rhythm,[1] demonstrating a significantly lower infection risk for patients who develop hematomas after cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) when the Tyrx Absorbable Antibacterial Envelope is used at implant.

Images or a digital twin mitral valve of a patient created from cardiac ultrasound that were used to perform a virtual surgical procedure to test how the intervention would impact the patient prior to actually performing the procedure. The right image shows color coding for sheer stresses on the valve leaflets before and after the virtual surgery. The right image shows the model quantitation of leaflet coaptation at peak systole prior to the the virtual surgery. Read the original article in Plos One https:/

Outside of medicine, computer-generated virtual twins of real machines like cars or airplanes have been used in engineering to allow modeling in a virtual environment. This is used for assessment of aerodynamics and to identify areas of sheer stresses and the performance of the machines under various conditions. In the past couple years, several medical companies have developed similar "digital twin" technology to computer model a patient's heart or other organs for use in a virtual test environment.

July 26, 2021 — Heart disease and stroke continue to kill more people in the U.S. than any other cause, despite, and likely even due to, the impact of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic last year. This is according to new provisional data released from the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

July 26, 2021 – CathWorks announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the application to provide reimbursement for the CathWorks FFRangio System, making it more broadly available for coronary artery disease decision-making in Japan. The CathWorks FFRangio has already received regulatory approval from the Japanese Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) in December 2019 and is also commercially available in the United States and Europe.

Improving Consistency and Standardization with Structured Reporting in cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), cardiac PACS.

Jeff Rieder M.D., a cardiologist with Coastal Cardiology Charleston, clearly recalls the time when reporting was dictated. The problem with traditional transcription methods, he explains, is that it was easy to inadvertently omit important information. In addition, different providers could use different terminology, making the reports inconsistent and increasing the likelihood that important information could be overlooked when reading them.
In the past decade there has been a proliferation of clinical-grade wearable monitors and implantable devices such as pacemakers, ICDs, implantable cardiac monitors, and new pacemaker-like devices that can control hypertension. In the near future, these devices will be tied into a body-wide internet of things for specific patients that can transmit patient data to clinicians wirelessly to enable an integrated, more robust form of telecardiology and telemedicine.

Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death for people over 65 years old in North America and Europe. According to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the top 10 causes of death in 2019, heart disease remained at the top of the list. The world’s aging population has resulted in an even greater surge in health problems.

July 22, 2021 — Medis Medical Imaging is partnering with CORRIB Core Lab and Sinomed in randomized clinical trial of angiography-derived fractional flow reserve (FFR) using the Medis Quantitative Flow Ratio (QFR) technology.

July 21, 2021 — Artificial intelligence (AI)  medical imaging vendors Viz.AI and Avicenna.AI have partnered to enable intelligent care coordination and improve patient triage of patients suffering from pulmonary embolism (PE) and aortic disease.

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