This latest alert comes after Johnson & Johnson MedTech found that certain devices may require hardware, firmware and/or software updates to address safety concerns.
American Heart Association has developed systems of care that can help developing countries improve their heart attack and stroke care and boost survival.
When heart patients are diagnosed with severe AS, how quickly do they need to undergo TAVR? That was the focus of a new analysis published in Open Heart.
Specialists from the fields of interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery collaborated to perform what is believed to be the first completely catheter-based Fontan procedure in U.S. history. The young patient's recovery was much easier than it would have been otherwise.
"I want to be safe, I want to get the vessel open and I don’t want to spend a long time doing it," cardiologist William C. Dixon, MD, explains. "IVL helps me achieve all of those things.”
