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Medtronic Penditure Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Exclusion System
| Left Atrial Appendage Closure

Medtronic has added a new device, the Penditure Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Exclusion System, to its cardiac surgery portfolio. The device was designed for the exclusion of the LAA in patients undergoing concomitant heart surgeries, a…

| Pharmaceutics

Bayer has ended a clinical trial for its new atrial fibrillation (AFib) drug much earlier than planned based on recommendations from the Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC).…

Medtronic's PulseSelect Pulse Field Ablation (PFA) System
| Heart Rhythm

Medtronic has gained European CE mark approval for its PulseSelect Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System and the Nitron CryoConsole.

PulseSelect, designed to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib), is a key…

AI cardiology heart artificial intelligence deep learning
| Artificial Intelligence

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate and treat heart disease has been one of the biggest stories at the…

Newsweek ranked the 50 best heart hospitals in the world
| Policy & Regulations

The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR), a global group focused on improving patient outcomes after in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA), has shared 10 steps hospitals can take to…

QDOT MICRO Biosense Webster Johnson and Johnson
| Heart Rhythm

Treating paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AFib) with a next-generation radiofrequency (RF) catheter from Biosense Webster, a Johnson and Johnson MedTech company, is associated with significant improvements in quality of life (QOL),…

audioplethysmography Google headphones
| Remote Monitoring

Researchers from Google have introduced a new approach for cardiac monitoring that relies on the active noise canceling (ANC) technology found in headphones and earbuds.

The technique,…

money business cash flow dollar
| Mergers & Acquisitions

Kingsway Financial Services, a Chicago-based holding company with subsidiaries in several industries, has acquired New Jersey-based Digital Diagnostics Imaging (DDI) for $11 million. The…

Medtronic extravascular ICD Aurora EV-ICD MRI SureScan
| Heart Rhythm

Medtronic has gained U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a new first-of-its-kind extravascular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and defibrillation lead that allows…

SentiAR CommandEP system
| Cardiac Imaging

Augmented reality is becoming more common in healthcare settings, with St. Louis-based developer

Specialists at Cleveland Clinic treated a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patient with a new gene therapy from Tenaya Therapeutics
| Heart Rhythm

Specialists at Cleveland Clinic have treated a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patient with a new gene therapy designed to reverse disease progression.

| TAVR

Nearly one-fifth of patients die within two years of undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), according to a new analysis…

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| Electrophysiology

Cardiologists are often not too concerned when atrial arrhythmias occur during the 90-day “blanking period” after catheter ablation. According to a new analysis published in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, however, such…

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| TAVR

Cardiologists can safely perform routine electrophysiology (EP) studies during…

Attune Medical has been granted De Novo marketing authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ensoETM device to reduce the likelihood of ablation-related esophageal injury resulting from radiofrequency cardiac ablation procedures.
| Heart Rhythm

Attune Medical, the Chicago-based healthcare technology company, has received a De Novo

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| TAVR

Non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are associated with fewer major bleeding events and deaths than vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) when treating patients who develop new-onset atrial fibrillation (AFib) after…