The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
October 16, 2017 Rebecca Anderson Technology has the potential to revolutionise emergency department triage of chest pain patients. Developer of innovative medical diagnostic technology, Creavo Medical Technologies, has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The move opens the U.S. market for its portable scanning device, Vitalscan, […]
TORONTO, Oct. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Baylis Medical Company Inc. and Siemens Healthineers are co-sponsoring a first-of-its kind training program aimed at helping cardiologists perform a complex procedure that is quickly becoming the gold standard for treating patients with atrial fibrillation and other structural heart diseases. The two companies are working with […]
Study Evaluates Patients With Kidney Disease After Undergoing TAVR By Cardiac Interventions Today October 16, 2017—The American College of Cardiology (ACC) announced the publication of a study demonstrating a relatively low rate of patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) who eventually need to start dialysis. […]
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 16, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — REVA Medical, Inc. (ASX:RVA) (“REVA” or the “Company”) announced today the commercial expansion of its bioresorbable scaffold (“BRS”), Fantom®, with the first implant in Switzerland. The first implant of Fantom in Switzerland was conducted at Kantonsspital Baselland in Liestal, Switzerland by Dr. Gregor Leibundgut. “Following my […]
CHICAGO, Oct. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Bioprinting startup BIOLIFE4D named accomplished thoracic and cardiac surgeon Jeffrey Morgan M.D., FACS, FACC as Chief Medical Officer, further bolstering its world-class leadership team. BIOLIFE4D is a pioneering biotech company focused on leveraging advances in life sciences and tissue engineering to 3D bioprint a viable human heart suitable for transplant. Joining […]
MILPITAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Elixir Medical Corporation, a leader in the development of breakthrough adaptive remodeling technologies designed to mimic the normal arterial function after cardiovascular and peripheral vascular disease intervention, announced today it will unveil a game-changing metallic drug eluting stent (DES) platform at this year’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference […]
By Ken Dropiewski, Prime-Core Executive Search (ken@prime-core.com) New research brings to light a question of ethics when it comes to the deactivation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD). Concerns differ significantly between cardiologists, hospice, and palliative medicine clinicians. This has lead to inconsistent and confusing end-of-life care for some […]
FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Prof. Dr. Achille Gaspardone, Director of Cardiology at Hospital of Sant’Eugenio (Rome, Italy) presented a comprehensive report on closure of PFO (Patent Foramen Ovale) utilizing the NobleStitch™ EL suture based closure system at the CSI-UCSF meeting on Congenital Structural Interventions in San Francisco. The NobleStitch™ EL, […]
(PresseBox) – BIOTRONIK has announced the start of enrollment of a coronary stent trial aiming at assessing the safety and clinical performance of a new coronary stent in de novo coronary artery lesions. On September 28, first Dr. Marco Moccetti, Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland, and later on the same day Dr. Lorenz Raeber, University […]
EXTON, Pennsylvania, Oct. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ –Essential Medical, Inc. today announced initiation of enrollment in a post market clinical registry in the regions where MANTA is commercially available. Principle Investigator Nicolas Van Mieghem, MD, PhD, Medical Director of the Department of Interventional Cardiology at Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands stated, “MANTA has quickly become […]
