Children with congenital heart disease outgrow their replacement valves, requiring repeat open-heart surgeries. The Autus can be expanded using a transcatheter procedure.

The establishment of dedicated CPT codes represents an important step in the broader reimbursement for renal denervation to treat uncontrolled hypertension.

Blocking the enzyme succinate dehydrogenase can flip a metabolic switch in adult mice to prompt cardiomyocyte regeneration.

The drug is now the only FDA-approved therapy for the treatment of obstructive HCM in a pediatric population.

Cardiologists have always wanted a better way to identify heart patients in need of care early in their course of disease. Artificial intelligence may be the tool physicians have been waiting for. 

At Mass General Brigham, advanced algorithms help clinicians spend more time focused on what matters most.

A new ACC scientific statement looks at how eating well can help with the prevention and management of CVD. Plant-based foods as well as healthy fats and proteins are recommended over foods high in refined starches, added sugars and unhealthy fats. 

The new device, designed to perform mitral valve repair in patients with functional MR, was co-invented by cardiologist Samir Kapadia, MD, and surgeon Jose Navia, MD.

The newly cleared system can now assist clinicians during mitral valve repair, tricuspid valve repair, LAAO and other advanced cardiac procedures. 

The Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Sept. 30 voted 12-11 along party lines to favorably report the nominations of Nicole Saphier, MD, and four other individuals. 

European imaging experts recently conducted an expansive study, involving 10 different AI tools from seven separate vendors, implemented across 20 centers staffed by 58 rads. 

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said he believes the technology offers the opportunity to “free us from medical tyranny.” 
 

Analyzing more than 1,500 cases of patients who got sent from an acute-care hospital to an ostensibly more-capable facility, Harvard researchers have found 1 in 4 such transfers could—and probably should—have been avoided. 

A study from the University of Iowa Health Care found that age and gender played a role in self-reported long COVID symptoms, but the recency of a COVID-19 vaccine or booster was not a factor.