The latest Class I recall is due to mechanical issues that can cause the devices to stop charging their batteries. 

Rebecca Hahn, MD, examines the growing role of the dedicated interventional echocardiographer and how these imagers are paid.

“If we can deploy our model on a population-level ECG screening, we would be able to pick up many more of these patients before they have irreversible damage,” a cardiologist behind the new study explained. 

The new valve arrives fully premounted on a delivery system and was designed to allow resheathing or complete recapture/redeployment if necessary. 

Partho Sengupta, MD, an expert on the use of AI in cardiology, says some of the technologies being developed today will fundamentally change how cardiologists and sonographers do their jobs.

The two algorithms are now commercially available on a price-per-use basis.

The vascular surgeon was fired after telling the media about a cardiologist who allegedly performed transcatheter aortic valve replacement without the proper credentials. He is now suing the hospital for wrongful termination and defamation.

Weekly subcutaneous treatments of semaglutide, originally developed to treat diabetes, are sold and marketed under the brand name Wegovy.

AI that’s intended to let cars drive themselves can be repurposed to let tanks level cities. And AI can just as easily weaponize a virus as diagnose it. These are not secrets.

ACR is concerned such a scenario would result in delayed and highly variable coverage determinations across the U.S.