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Patients who undergo transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) face a heightened stroke risk for two years, according to new findings…
Jean-Philippe Collet, MD, PhD, a veteran cardiologist who specialized in…
Niranjan Mittal, a cardiologist based out of Brooklyn, New York, has been arrested due to his alleged participation in a fraud scheme that involved fabricating patient records, making illegal referrals and billing the U.S. government…
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) just published…
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) have published new guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial…
Medtronic has added a new device, the Penditure Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Exclusion System, to its cardiac surgery portfolio. The device was designed for the exclusion of the LAA in patients undergoing concomitant heart surgeries, a…
Bayer has ended a clinical trial for its new atrial fibrillation (AFib) drug much earlier than planned based on recommendations from the Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC).…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that Arrow International, a subsidiary of Teleflex, is recalling nearly 2,000 Pressure Injectable Catheter Kits. The FDA considered this a…
Stanley Capital Partners, a London-based private equity firm, announced that Laboratoire X.O (LXO), its French portfolio company, has acquired a prescription drug for bleeding stroke patients from…
Using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) to guide percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures is associated with a significant improvement in survival after two years, according to new findings published in JSCAI, the…
Toku, a New Zealand-based medical device company focused on retinal imaging technology, has received a breakthrough device…
The Mediterranean and…
HeartPoint Global, a Florida-based healthcare technology company focused on improving patient access to high-quality technology, won the Shark Take Innovation Competition at TCT 2023 with its Intellistent multi-lumen stent system. The…
The second round of late-breaking clinical trials at TCT 2023 in San Francisco included updates on two technologies that could reshape the very future of…
Shockwave Medical, the California-based healthcare technology company known for its intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) technology, will be displaying its newest catheter at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2023 meeting…
Radial access (RA) provides interventional cardiologists with a safe and effective alternative to femoral access during peripheral artery…
A group of interventional cardiology and vascular surgery experts has successfully petitioned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to change its national coverage determination (NCD) for carotid…
Patient-related factors such as diabetes, neurological conditions or a left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) less than 50% are all associated with an increased stroke risk after…
Cordis has finalized its agreement to acquire MedAlliance, a Switzerland-based healthcare technology company focused on drug-eluting balloons, in a deal that could potentially be worth more than $1 billion.
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Patients with cannabis use disorder (CUD) face a heightened risk of adverse cardiovascular events, according to new data published in Addiction.[1]
“Mounting epidemiological, clinical and…
Cardiologists are often not too concerned when atrial arrhythmias occur during the 90-day “blanking period” after catheter ablation. According to a new analysis published in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, however, such…