The company and one of its subsidiaries would allegedly confuse clinicians and have them bill government programs for cardiac monitoring services that were more expensive than what they needed. This settlement resolves those allegations.
Jean-Philippe Collet, MD, PhD. Image courtesy of Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.
“The cardiovascular community has lost an inspiring leader and a man whose warmth and generosity profoundly touched all those who knew him," the European Society of Cardiology said in a statement.
Image courtesy of the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science / James Tye.
“We identified a problem in cardiology,” one cardiologist explained. “Heart imaging has made remarkable progress in recent decades, but the electrics of the heart have eluded us."
Asian patients are rarely represented in large TAVR trials, the authors wrote, so they focused on nearly 1,200 patients from South Korea to provide a fresh perspective.
Abbott's HeartMate 3 LVAD is the only FDA-approved device of its kind currently available in the United States. Should reports of adverse events worry cardiologists? Or are they to be expected when treating such a vulnerable patient population?