Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that chairman and CEO Michael A. Mussallem served as an invited expert panelist on behalf of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) at the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on "Continuing America's Leadership: Advancing Research and Development for Patients."

TAVR, transcatheter heart valves, GlobalData, TMVR

Research and consulting firm GlobalData reported that the global market value for transcatheter heart valves will expand at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 19.7 percent through 2020, reaching an approximate value of $3.02 billion.

The 6th Annual Vitals Index revealed that the national average for wait times for doctors dropped to 19 minutes and 16 seconds, a full one-minute shorter than the 2014 wait time average.

The biggest technology news coming out of the 2015 American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual scientific sessions involved the overwhelmingly positive late-breaking trial data for transcatheter aortic and mitral valve repair. ACC dedicated an entire day of late-breaking trial presentations to this new technology, highlighting its importance in how cardiology will be changing in the coming years, moving from invasive surgical repairs to minimally invasive percutaneous therapies.

Adding the antiplatelet drug ticagrelor (Brilinta) to aspirin as long-term therapy after a heart attack significantly reduced the rate of subsequent death from cardiovascular causes, heart attack or stroke, with the benefit appearing to accrue for nearly three years, according to a study presented at the 2015 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Scientific Session.

Cardiac visualization and analysis software provider Epsilon Imaging announced the results of four studies presented at the ACC 2015 that demonstrated improved quality in assessment of heart function with EchoInsight visualization and analysis.  These studies included:

March 26, 2015 — Siemens Healthcare introduced a new angiography system and new cardiac ultrasound apps at the 2015 American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting. 
 

A new expert consensus paper released by a coalition of cardiovascular organizations provides guidance on transcatheter pulmonic valve replacement (tPVR) for children and adults who were previously treated for congenital heart disease (CHD). The paper was jointly issued by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), American College of Cardiology (ACC) and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS).

Bendavia, heart attack, scarring, angioplasty, ACC, study

Patients who received the new drug Bendavia before undergoing angioplasty or stent implantation after a heart attack showed no significant reduction in scarring compared to patients given a placebo, according to a new study.
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