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April 1, 2015April 1, 2015

FDA Approves Impella 2.5 Blood Pump For Patients Undergoing High Risk Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Procedures

Danvers, Massachusetts based in Abiomed, Inc., specialists in heart support technologies and circulatory boosting medical devices, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pre-Market Approval (PMA) for its Impella ... Read more

March 31, 2015March 31, 2015

Researchers Find That Prior Sternotomy in Heart Transplantation Patients Increases Morbidity and Mortality

Researchers at the Cedars Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, California recently reported that the mortality and morbidity in patients who undergo heart transplantation can be increased by a prior ... Read more

March 30, 2015March 30, 2015

Case Study For Non-Surgical Procedure Used for Potentially Fatal Bleeding Control in Sternotomies

A recent case study report describes the non-surgical repair of a left internal mammary artery (IMA) branch pseudoaneurysm. This complication occurred after a chest surgery and can in some cases lead ... Read more

March 27, 2015March 27, 2015

Preliminary Findings Released For TriGuard: A New Brain Protecting Device During Heart-Valve Procedure

Dr. Alexandra J. Lansky, MD, the Director of the Yale Cardiovascular Clinical Research Program, Yale School of Medicine and her collaborators at the Bristol Heart Institute made an important announcement ... Read more

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015

Calcitriol May Prevent Death By Chronic Heart Failure

New research identified the ratio of calcitriol (a vitamin D metabolite 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25(OH)2D)) to parathyroid hormone (PTH 1-84) as a new predictor of the risk of death by chronic ... Read more

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015

Hormone Replacement Therapy in Postmenopausal Women Does Not Protect Against Cardiovascular Disease

According to evidence provided by a Cochrane Library review, hormone replacement therapy does not safeguard post-menopausal women against cardiovascular disease. Conversely, the treatment can increase the risk of stroke. Hormone ... Read more

March 19, 2015March 20, 2015

Study Shows Minimally Invasive Valve Replacement Procedure Helps Elderly Patients Live Longer With Better Outcomes

Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic have recently released results from a trial in which the late clinical outcomes in patients undergoing a minimally invasive valve procedure were assessed. The study ... Read more

March 18, 2015March 19, 2015

JAMA Publishes Data On Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Procedure

In the March issue of JAMA, data from a one-year study of more than 12,000 patients who received procedures of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in the United States were published, the outcomes of which showed ... Read more

March 18, 2015March 19, 2015

Study Testing Procyrions’ Catheter-deployed Vascular Device for Cardiovascular Disease Presented at ACC.15

Carlos del Rio, Ph.D., a researcher at QTest Laboratories, presented his study results at ACC.15, the 64th annual American College of Cardiology Scientific Session that took place March 14-16 in San Diego, California. In his ... Read more

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015

A New Device to Increase Rescue Cases During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Advance Circulatory Systems (Minnesota, USA) received a premarket approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ResQCPR System to be used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) of patients suffering out-of-hospital ... Read more