ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 31, 2018 — MicroVention, Inc., a U.S.-based subsidiary of Terumo and a global neurovascular company, announced today the FDA Premarket Approval (PMA) for the LVIS® and LVIS® Jr. stents for stent-assisted coil embolization of intracranial aneurysms.

Two viewpoint pieces published May 30 in JAMA Cardiology focused on the inequities women face in cardiology, both in terms of compensation and discrimination.

Adding biomarkers to the validated Pooled Cohort Equation (PCE) can improve predictions of cardiovascular events including heart attack, stroke and heart failure among older patients, researchers reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

University of California, Los Angeles cardiologist Guillermo Andres Cortes, MD, had his medical license temporarily suspended by state officials after a female colleague accused him of sexual assault while they were working together at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Since then, multiple women have come forward with additional accusations of misconduct.

In-home physical therapy using telehealth systems, supervised by a licensed physical therapist, is effective for stroke rehabilitation, according to a study presented May 24 at the 2018 European Stroke Organization Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.

With shorter half-lives and more predictable effects, direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) could help simplify perioperative treatment decisions for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF), suggests a meta-analysis published May 24 in Circulation.

Countries in the Mediterranean region—thought to have one of the healthiest diets in the world—now have the highest rates of childhood obesity in Europe, according to data presented last week.

Severe and active atopic eczema in adulthood is associated with an increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), including stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction (MI) and atrial fibrillation (AFib), according to a new study published May 23 in The BMJ.

The FDA has cleared a robotic system that can noninvasively assess abnormal blood flow to the brain, helping diagnose and triage patients with ischemic strokes and other neurologic disorders.

A higher testosterone-to-estrogen ratio could be a harbinger of future cardiovascular disease (CVD) among post-menopausal women, according to a study published May 28 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.