The new document represents the ACC’s first Concise Clinical Guidance; it was designed to be an easy-to-use reference for keeping track of a complicated topic. 

“Clear signs of an aortic dissection” were missed in the patient's imaging findings after he presented to the emergency room, according to the lawsuit. He was diagnosed with acute pericarditis at the time and sent home—and then died four days later.

Researchers explored five-year data from more than 1,800 patients with nonvalvular AFib who underwent LAAO with Abbott's Amulet or Boston Scientific's Watchman 2.5. 

Clinicians are asking the world's medical societies to come together and agree on one acronym for TAVR/TAVI to avoid unnecessary confusion going forward.

Food insecurity—lacking consistent access to the food needed to live an “active, healthy lifestyle”—impacts up to one in eight Americans each year. 

Researchers developed several new AI models that could guide the management of patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. There is still some work to do in terms of accuracy, but they already appear to outperform the traditional risk scores being used today.

Philips is recalling all sizes of its Tack Endovascular System after 20 patient injuries were reported. Interventional cardiologists are urged to stop using the device immediately. 

Boston Scientific has announced another significant M&A deal, scooping up an Israeli medtech company focused on RDN technology. 

The new-look Javelin Peripheral IVL Catheter was designed to travel through extremely narrowed blood vessels and target plaques with up to 120 pulses.

"The passage of the CR without a Medicare physician payment fix represents a massive congressional failure," the MGMA said Friday. 

Researchers in Toronto used MRI scans to measure the brain as it heals after injury. They found damage persists for a year after athletes are medically cleared to return to the field.