A Signify Research representative highlights key trends in cardiovascular IT systems, including the growing role of AI and much more. 

The excessive use of electronic devices is associated with significant health risks for young children and adolescents. In fact, too much screen time may impact the body in ways that last well into adulthood. 

Instylla's Embrace Hydrogel Embolic System minimizes bleeding risks during the embolization of hypervascular tumors in the peripheral arteries.

The FTC is working to stop Edwards Lifesciences from completing its acquisition of JenaValve. Edwards, however, is not backing down.

Customers with these devices on hand are asked to return them right away. No serious injuries have been reported at this time, but the presence of residual particulates can lead to such side effects as pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis.

Because of this risk, which has been associated with 120 serious injuries, Boston Scientific is updating the instructions for use of several Watchman access systems.

Researchers reviewed data from more than 1,300 patients who underwent both CCTA and TEE after undergoing LAAO. The two modalities were comparable in many ways, but cardiac CT was linked to a few key benefits.

Most patients are first diagnosed with heart failure in an emergency room or hospital, when their symptoms are already severe. This advanced algorithm could change all that by opening up screening to many more patients. 

Boston Scientific manufactured these devices from 2002 to 2021, and approximately 354,000 are still in use. It is recommended that clinicians look for early signs of this issue during scheduled follow-up appointments.

In fact, more than 55% of all PCI cases in 2022 were performed using radial access. Cardiologists are sure to be keeping a close eye on this trend as time goes on.

“This innovation was born out of necessity,” one surgeon explained. “We were determined to find a way to help the smallest and sickest children who previously had no access to DCD heart donation.” 

When older patients undergo SAVR with concomitant procedures, it increases their short- and long-term risks of mortality. Should this influence care teams to consider more transcatheter treatments? 

Plaintiffs in the complaint include Radiology Partners and its affiliates, the Arkansas-based Highlands Oncology Group and Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians. 

When dissatisfied patients slam provider entities in online reviews, they tend to focus on administrative frustrations and thwarted requests. By contrast, satisfied healthcare consumers write quick, list-like rundowns of things that pleased them.