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Sudhir Srivastava, MD, conducting a live long-distance cardiac telesurgery at the EACTS 2026 annual meting, utilizing the SSi MantrAsana tele-surgeon console. The system enables 3D imaging to help the surgeon better understand the spacial relations of the anatomy where they are working.

The procedure, believed to be the first of its kind, was performed at the 2026 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

the words "FDA recall" on a board

Medtronic is recalling more than 700 OmniaSecure defibrillation leads, urging customers to quarantine and return them. The FDA has ruled this is a Class II recall. No adverse events have been reported.

Illustration of cardiologists going through the certification process. American College of Cardiology President B. Hadley Wilson, MD, discussed why the ACC and other leading cardiology groups are so eager to create a new, independent medical board. This has been a long-term goal for many years, he said, and now it may become a reality. 

Surgical bailout during TAVR is growing increasingly rare as time goes on. Does that mean it is time to rethink certain coverage policies? A new study and two separate editorials examined this topic in great detail.

Eko Health Core 300 Stethoscopes

Eko Health's Core 300 stethoscope offers noise cancellation, amplification and a real-time display of the patient's heart data. Clinicians can also use the same device for traditional analog listening.

Caristo's fat attenuation index (FAI) AI-assessment for coronary inflammation in CCTA scans can visualize patient's residual cardiac risk not seen on traditional cardiac assessments.

These findings left researchers asking questions about the risk assessment tools clinicians currently use on a daily basis.

VIDEO: Arnold Seto, MD, MPA, FSCAI, Cath Lab Director, VA Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, professor of medicine at Charles Drew University, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) treasurer and and chair of the advocacy committee, explains SCAI's change in position on TAVR after listening to what members had to say in a survey.

SCAI surveyed its members to find out what they thought about potential changes to current TAVR policies. The responses to that survey helped influence the group's official stance. 

Innovation at work

Traditionally, the interventional cardiologist first visualizes the coronary anatomy in detail when contrast is injected in the catheterization laboratory. For many patients, however, that anatomy has already been captured, often in considerable detail, by coronary CT angiography (CCTA) performed earlier in the clinical pathway. This article considers how this dataset can be used to plan the procedure, an approach referred to as CT-guided PCI.

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