Patients with critical limb ischemia might be better off if they opt for endovascular-first treatment over an open surgical bypass, a Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes study suggests.

Surgery doesn’t improve survival in patients with isolated severe tricuspid regurgitation, researchers have found.

The director of Duke University’s heart transplant program is promoting warm perfusion—a technique that preserves organs more effectively than a traditional cooling box—as a means of expanding the CV donor pool in the U.S.

A federal review of UNC Hospital’s pediatric cardiology unit found “no current deficiencies” in the program just two months after the New York Times published an article suggesting the unit was in “total disarray."

A study out of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has found patients insured through TRICARE, the U.S. military’s universal health insurance program, saw similar CABG outcomes regardless of their race.

KentuckyOne Health will suspend its heart transplant program at Jewish Hospital effective August 17, leaving 32 patients in Louisville, Ky., without a clear path to a new heart.

A group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Yale School of Medicine have debunked the idea of a “July effect” in cardiac surgery with a study of nearly half a million U.S.-based heart procedures.

A JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions study published this month suggests machine learning models are more predictive and discriminative than standard methods for identifying patients at the greatest risk of CV mortality and rehospitalization after PCI.