Avinger announced on Oct. 18 its Pantheris SV atherectomy device has gained CE mark approval, allowing it to be sold commercially in Europe. The system extends the plaque-removing technique for peripheral artery disease to smaller vessels with diameters between 2 and 4 millimeters.

A point-of-care troponin assay that yields results within about 15 minutes was equally effective at ruling out acute myocardial infarction (AMI) as a high-sensitivity troponin I test performed in a laboratory setting, researchers reported in JAMA Cardiology.

A year after its launch, the American Heart Association and American Medical Association’s joint Target: BP Recognition Program, an effort to reduce the rate of uncontrolled hypertension in the U.S., has reached 802 members, the organizations announced this week.

Despite past research suggesting a history of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) could complicate coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) outcomes, a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association Oct. 16 reported prior PCI has little to do with how a patient recovers from subsequent surgeries.

Cleveland Clinic researchers identified amyloid deposits in 10.2 percent of patients undergoing carpal tunnel release surgery, suggesting biopsies of hand tissue could be an early signal of life-threatening cardiac amyloidosis.

Beta hydroxybutyrate—a ketone body produced in the liver—could be key to regulating hypertension in heart patients who aren’t able to exercise, according to research out of the University of Toledo.

Minnesota’s attorney general filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, Oct. 16, accusing drug manufacturers Sanofi, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly of deceptive price increases for insulin.

Catheter ablation was associated with better arrhythmia-free survival and lower complication rates than surgical ablation in patients with paroxysmal or early-onset persistent atrial fibrillation (AFib), according to a small, randomized study published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.

The proportion of part-time cardiologists is declining at a time when one would expect health systems to be doing everything they can to keep competent physicians on board, according to MedAxiom’s 2018 Cardiovascular Provider Compensation & Production Survey.

A team at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, announced progress on its latest cardiology wearable: a plant-based, stretchable wrist sticker that has the ability to monitor physical activity and alert users to health risks in real-time.