Researchers tracked data from more than 50 million hospital discharges. Overall, legalizing recreational cannabis was linked to more patients being hospitalized for myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation and heart failure.
Cardiologists with Henry Ford Hospital recently performed pulmonary artery denervation on two adults with pulmonary hypertension. These were the first patients in the United States to undergo treatment as part of the global PULSE-LHD trial.
The American Heart Association and three other leading medical societies want clinicians to consider the heart health of women during all stages of life, from adolescence to menopause and beyond.
Expertise and commitment of FDA reviewers remain in place, but the agency’s ability to communicate openly with industry has become a significant concern.
Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD, spoke to Cardiovascular Business about the potential benefits and limitations of using coronary CT angiography as a screening modality.
Heartflow filed the lawsuit after Elucid received FDA clearance for its new AI-enabled FFR-CT software. Elucid, meanwhile, is standing behind its technology and plans on responding through the appropriate legal channels.
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.
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.
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.
