Scientists have shown that people who exercise for even a few hours each week can enlarge their hearts. This is a normal and beneficial response to exercise, but until now has only been recognized in athletes. The researchers say that doctors should now consider an individual’s activity level before diagnosing common heart conditions.

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In the past few years, concern has skyrocketed from interventional cardiologists and cath lab staff over radiation dose exposure from the angiographic X-ray imaging systems. This is partly due to accumulation of study data showing the impact of radiation exposure on the job, with interventional cardiologists having higher rates of left-sided brain tumors, skin cancer, posterior subcapsular lens changes (a precursor to cataracts), thyroid disease and neuro-degenerative disease.

August 9, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted market approval for the Emblem MRI Subcutaneous Implantable Defibrillator (S-ICD) System, as well as magnetic resonance (MR) conditional labeling for all previously implanted Emblem S-ICD Systems. 

The new Emblem MRI S-ICD System is the latest addition to the Boston Scientific's growing line of ImageReady MR-conditional electrophysiology devices, which allow patients to undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) safely.

August 9, 2016 – With the use of intensive care units (ICUs) on the rise in many hospitals, researchers at LA BioMed and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) examined ICU usage and found patients who were admitted to these units underwent more costly and invasive procedures, but didn’t have better mortality rates than hospitalized patients with the same medical conditions who were not admitted to the ICU.
 

Updated recommendations from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) states that catheter-based closure should not be routinely recommended for people who have had a stroke and also have a heart defect called a patent foramen ovale (PFO), a channel between the top two chambers in the heart.

ClearFlow Inc. announced in late July that its PleuraFlow Active Clearance Technology is now available for the treatment of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery patients.

Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR)

Advanced Symposium on Pediatric Cardiovascular Imaging

Transradial Interventional and Vascular Access Complications (SCAI TRIP-VASC)

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