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transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure guided by CT fusion imaging on a patient with heart failure and a blood clot. CT fusion imaging-guided deployment of the Sentinel Cerebral Protection System during a TAVR procedure. Image courtesy of Vasudev et al.
May 06, 2022 | TAVR

A team of cardiologists and surgeons at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey believe they have made history by…

Illustration showing four innovative heart failure technologies: The V-Wave interaterial shunt to relieve pressures between the left and right sides of the heart; the Carillon Transcatheter mitral valve annuloplasty system; the Revivent TC system and the AccuCinch device. Interventional cardiology heart failure cleveland clinic

Medical researchers have stayed busy in recent years working to develop new interventional heart failure treatments that offer more relief than…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare providers to the possibility that patients who have a Medtronic Heartware Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) System and present with pump thrombosis may have a welding defect in the internal pump, causing it to malfunction. Medtronic and the FDA issues the notice to providers April 28, 2022.
April 29, 2022 | Heart Failure

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

Heart failure hospitalizations among young adults are getting more common and more expensive
April 28, 2022 | Heart Failure

Hospitalizations for heart failure (HF) are on the rise among young adults, according to a new study published in JACC: Heart Failure.[1]

TricValve Transcatheter Bicaval Valves System Cleveland Clinic. Image courtesy of P + F Products + Features GmbH.
April 19, 2022 | Structural Heart Disease

Interventional cardiologists at Cleveland Clinic have successfully completed the first implantation in North America of the…

Patient doctor with masks. A team of specialists from Cleveland Clinic reviewed nearly 3,000 medications, writing that a common type 2 diabetes medication offered the most potential as an effective treatment for AFib. 
April 19, 2022 | Heart Failure

Infertility, which affects one in five U.S. women, was found to be associated with a 16% increase in heart failure risk in a new study published by the Journal of the American College of…

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting ACC.22 is the premier source for the latest cardiac science. #ACC22 Here are links to all the late breaking studies, trials and late-breaker science at the annual meeting conference. #ACC2022 #ACC

Here are links to all the American College of Cardiology (ACC) late-breaking clinical studies presented at the 2022 ACC Annual Scientific Session. ACC.22 took place April 2-4, 2022, in Washington, D.C. 

These latest…

Nurses caring for a COVID-19 patient in the COVID unit at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix.
April 13, 2022 | COVID-19

More than 25 months after COVID-19 was officially categorized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, researchers are still working to learn as much as…

Researchers are using an intra-atrial shunt to lower pressures between the upper chambers of the heart to relieve symptoms in HFpEF heart failure patients. The novel Noya device uses an RF ablation to cut a hole into the septum and then enlarge it using a stent that can then be removed from the body after the procedure. 
April 07, 2022 | Heart Failure

Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation–based interatrial shunting could be a safe and effective treatment option for patients with heart failure with preserved…

April 07, 2022 | Heart Failure

Citing significant advances in genomic technology over the past decade, an

Steven E. Nissen, MD, discusses his late-breaking clinical trial with panelist Vera Bittner, MD.
April 04, 2022 | Heart Failure

ACC.22, the American College of Cardiology’s 71st Annual Scientific Session & Expo, is officially underway in Washington, D.C.

The conference’s second full day, April 3, included a wide variety…

Congress dome capitol Washington
March 31, 2022 | Heart Failure

Congress has opened an investigation into how the FDA handled the 2021 recall of Medtronic’s HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) system.

The recall,…

March 28, 2022 | Heart Failure

Can spirituality improve quality of life for heart failure patients? A literature review published today in JACC: Heart Failure suggests that…

Electrocardiograms analyzed by AI can offer information about mortality risk.
March 18, 2022 | Heart Failure

Researchers have developed deep learning models capable of identifying right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular (LV) dysfunction from electrocardiogram (ECG) findings…

There has been fear of a small number of patients who experience myocarditis after COVID vaccination, but a new study found it is safe in patients with prior heart damage. Image courtesy of Banner Health. #COVID19 #COVIDvaccination
March 17, 2022 | COVID-19

Patients who have already had myocarditis may not face a higher risk of developing that same condition again after receiving a COVID-19…

PCI can improve the odds of survival for some ischemic heart failure patients with moderate-to-severe functional mitral regurgitation, according to a new study. Image courtesy of Beaumont Hospital. Interventional cardiology procedure in a cath lab at Beaumont Hospital.
March 17, 2022 | Vascular & Endovascular

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can improve the odds of survival for certain ischemic heart failure (HF) patients with moderate-to-severe functional mitral regurgitation (FMR), according to new findings published in the

Nurses caring for a COVID-19 patient in the COVID unit at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix.
March 16, 2022 | COVID-19

Treatment with losartan does not reduce lung injuries or improve any clinical incomes among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a new analysis published in…

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