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 cardiologyheart failure, electrophysiologyhypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

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Orsiro achieves lower target lesion failure, revascularization than thicker stents

Three-year results of the BIO-RESORT study, presented at EuroPCR this week in Paris, put Biotronik’s ultrathin Orsiro stent ahead of two other competitors in terms of target lesion failure and revascularization.

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New guidelines redefine cardiogenic shock

An expert consensus document endorsed by four major cardiology societies redefines cardiogenic shock based on patient descriptions, physical markers and a standardized set of vocabulary.

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Abiomed’s Impella RP system is safe, FDA says

Results from the FDA’s latest investigation into Abiomed’s Impella RP system are in—and, with a couple of caveats, they’re positive.

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Antibacterial envelope cuts risk of CIED infection by 40%

An absorbable, antibiotic-eluting mesh envelope significantly reduced the incidence of major cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infections in a recent study of nearly 7,000 patients, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine May 16.

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Medical association releases consensus statement on intra-coronary imaging

The European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) has published a clinical guidance statement regarding the use of intra-coronary imaging (IC), sharing the document during its EuroPCR Annual Meeting, May 21-24 in Paris.

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How to alleviate patient anxiety about ICDs

A six-week online training course centered around living with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) helped alleviate anxiety in heart failure patients who were apprehensive about their devices.

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Abbott’s tricuspid valve repair system finds success in TRILUMINATE study

Results from the TRILUMINATE study, presented this week at EuroPCR 2019 in Paris, suggest Abbott’s minimally invasive tricuspid valve repair system is an effective solution for patients with structural heart disease, reducing the severity of tricuspid regurgitation (TR) in more than 85% of test cases.

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Algorithm optimizes catheter ablation in AFib patients

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science have developed an algorithm that can identify precise internal targets for ablation in atrial fibrillation patients—the first, they say, that can do so without the help of specialized catheters or 3D electroanatomic mapping.