April 21, 2026 — A new multicenter study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery finds that reoperative surgical mitral valve replacement (rSMVR) is associated with significantly better long-term survival compared to transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve (mViV) procedures in patients with failing bioprosthetic mitral valves. While both approaches demonstrated similar safety and procedural success at 30 days, key differences emerged over time, particularly beyond the first year.

April 16, 2026 —  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted 510(k) clearance to Royal Philips for its Philips Spectral CT Verida system, bringing its next-generation, AI-powered spectral CT innovation to the United States.

April 16, 2026 — A national study led by investigators from Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University found that transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement, or TTVR, delivered strong early results in real-world practice. Patients treated with TTVR experienced near elimination of tricuspid regurgitation, low rates of stroke, and meaningful improvements in symptoms and quality of life within 30 days.

April 17, 2026 — Corify Care has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance for the ACORYS System, an imageless, non-invasive cardiac mapping platform capable of delivering a global, four-chamber view of cardiac electrical activity in real-time.

This marks a fundamental shift in electrophysiology. By combining high-resolution 3D anatomical models with real-time electrical activity, the ACORYS System introduces true 4D cardiac mapping. This instant, whole-heart functional insight enables faster, safer and more predictable ablation procedures

April 16, 2026 — The cardiovascular surgery team at Nicklaus Children's Hospital's Heart Institute has successfully performed the first partial heart transplant in the state of Florida on a 11-year-old patient. With an implanted "living valve," the procedure is designed to prevent the need for future open-heart surgeries because the valve will grow with the child as they age.

April 15, 2026 – Elucid has announced the commercial availability of a new Lesion Inspection Tool for coronary and carotid plaque analysis in its novel Plaque-IQ software suite. The tool provides physicians the ability to interrogate lesion-specific composition and plaque burden across any vessel, which can help the physician better understand the patient risk profile to enhance clinical decision-making.

April 15, 2026 – AliveCor has received CE Mark (Conformité Européenne) for the Kardia 12L electrocardiogram (ECG) System powered by KAI 12L AI technology. Kardia 12L is an AI-powered, portable 12-lead ECG system featuring a unique, single-cable design for health care professionals (HCPs). Powered by KAI 12L, the system enables faster, easier detection of 35 cardiac determinations, including acute myocardial infarction (MI) and the most common types of cardiac ischemia.

April 10, 2026 — As artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities increase, one of the issues that is hindering progress is the ability of AI to integrate multiple data types from various sources (multimodal data) to develop personalized interventions. For example, how to combine highly detailed genomic data with cardiology imaging and other data (text, audio, sensor data) from multiple sources into a secure "digital fabric" — a unified system to improve analytical accuracy, robustness, and depth that can be used to train the next generation of AI models.

April 14, 2026 — Implicity, a provider of remote patient monitoring and cardiac data management solutions, recently presented new research at the 2026 European Heart Rhythm Association Congress (EHRA) examining why false-positive alerts remain a persistent challenge in implantable cardiac monitors (ICMs) — even in devices equipped with manufacturer AI algorithms.

April 13, 2026 — Heart failure is common in people who have atrial fibrillation detected during screening, according to a presentation at EHRA 2026,1 the annual congress of the European Heart Rhythm Association, a branch of the 

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