Clinical

This channel newsfeed includes clinical content on treating patients or the clinical implications in a variety of cardiac subspecialties and disease states. The channel includes news on cardiac surgery, interventional cardiology, heart failure, electrophysiology, hypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.

FDA greenlights first non-opioid treatment for severe pain in 20 years
Journavax was shown in clinical trials to be safe and effective, with no addictive potential.
PCI before TAVR linked to better outcomes than performing both at once
Researchers explored data from more than 50,000 TAVR patients who presented with both severe aortic stenosis and stable coronary artery disease, sharing their findings in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.
Swedish total artificial heart tech granted FDA’s humanitarian use designation
Realheart celebrated the news, noting that multiple preclinical trials focused on the technology's safety and effectiveness are currently underway.
New findings prompt experts to call for routine brain imaging of certain breast cancer patients
New research suggests more women with late-stage breast cancer may develop brain metastases than previously believed.
Medical device company raises $36M for emitter-free IVL platform
Boston-based Amplitude Vascular Systems is busy investigating the performance of its Pulse IVL platform in a wide variety of patient populations.

4D ultrasound shows preborn humans ‘laughing’ over carrots, ‘crying’ over kale

Researchers in the U.K. have documented fetuses smiling when exposed to sweet flavors and frowning over bitter tastes.

Female Medical Research Scientist Working with Brain Scans

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to help fund repeat imaging of 60,000 patients

The ambitious project seeks to exponentially increase new data within the U.K. Biobank, a prominent large-scale biomedical database and research resource.

Cardiac CT comparable to invasive angiography when assessing stable chest pain, new meta-analysis confirms

Researchers examined data from nearly 5,400 patients, tracking such outcomes as myocardial infarction, stroke and all-cause mortality.

Written PDAs a quick, easy way to ‘enhance IR patients’ sense of empowerment’

Interventional radiology patients who receive this type of patient decision aid for consent purposes tend to feel more heard and better informed.

Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) Shockwave Medical PCI PAD CAD Disrupt PAD Disrupt CAD SCAI 2022

Is IVL equally effective in male and female patients? Shockwave Medical aims to find out with a historic new study

Shockwave announced at TCT 2022 that it hopes to enroll up to 400 patients for a new all-female clinical trial.

Self-supervised AI ‘reads’ radiology reports to speed algorithm development

A machine learning system has come along that needs no human labeling of data for training yet matches radiologists at classifying diseases on chest X-rays—including some that the model was not specifically taught to detect.

AHA, AMA drop lawsuit challenge to No Surprises Act

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Medical Association (AMA) have dropped their legal challenge to the interim final rule independent dispute resolution process of the No Surprises Act.

The Pulnovo pulmonary artery denervation catheter. In February 2021, the devices was granted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) breakthrough device designation. #TCT2022 #PAH

Pulmonary artery denervation shows promise to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension

Pulmonary artery denervation may offer a new therapy option for this difficult-to-treat population.

Clinical

FDA greenlights first non-opioid treatment for severe pain in 20 years

PCI before TAVR linked to better outcomes than performing both at once

Swedish total artificial heart tech granted FDA’s humanitarian use designation

New findings prompt experts to call for routine brain imaging of certain breast cancer patients

Medical device company raises $36M for emitter-free IVL platform