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Novel Therapies for Advanced Heart Failure
Heart failure is a progressively debilitating disease that dramatically decreases the life expectancy and quality of life of affected patients. Nearly 5.8 million Americans...
Read More July 27, 2010
New Drive Unit Makes Artificial Heart More Practical
The practicality and expense of maintaining patients on total artificial hearts (TAH) may be significantly impacted with the introduction of a new, investigational portable...
Read More June 21, 2010
First Drug-Eluting Balloon Brought Before the FDA
Drug-eluting balloons (DEBs) may offer new options in treating peripheral vessels and restenosis. DEBs already offer an alternative treatment tool in Europe, and the first...
Read More May 3, 2010
Sleep Apnea Tied to Increased Risk of Stroke
April 13, 2010 – Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with an increased risk of stroke in middle-aged and older adults, especially men, according to new results from a...
Read More April 13, 2010
Endeavor Stent Long-Term Data Shows Consistent Safety, Efficacy
Final five-year results from the ENDEAVOR III trial, comparing the Endeavor Zotarolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent to the Cypher Sirolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent, showed...
Read More March 24, 2010
ACCORD Trial Finds Intensive Blood Pressure, Lipid Therapies Do Not Reduce Cardiovascular Events in Diabetics
March 16, 2010 — Lowering blood pressure to normal levels — below currently recommended levels — did not significantly reduce the combined risk of fatal or nonfatal...
Read More March 17, 2010
ACC Highlights 30 Late-Breaking Trials
March 9, 2010 – The most recent data from 30 late-breaking clinical trials is being highlighted during the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2010 scientific sessions,...
Read More March 9, 2010
See the Signs of Heart Disease in Women
Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease (CAD), heart attacks and death in both men and women in the United States. However, advances in diagnosing...
Read More February 26, 2010
Guiding Stent Treatment With FFR
Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is starting to change cardiologists’ minds about how to treat patients since the release of two-year results from the FAME (FFR vs....
Read More February 10, 2010
The Future of Stent Technology Highlighted at TCT 2009
Standard drug-eluting stent technology seemed to have taken a backseat at this year’s TCT as cardiologists look forward to the next-generation DES using bioresorbable...
Read More November 17, 2009
XIENCE Outperforms TAXUS Express in SPIRIT IV
September 29, 2009 – Among the biggest news to come out of TCT 2009 last week was the late-breaking data from the SPIRIT IV trial, which showed Abbott's XIENCE V...
Read More September 30, 2009
Fluid Monitoring Predicted Three Times More Future Heart Failure Events Than Weight Monitoring Alone
September 15, 2009 – Fluid monitoring with OptiVol Fluid Status Monitoring is a more accurate predictor of worsening heart failure compared to daily weight monitoring in...
Read More September 15, 2009
Gregg Stone Highlights Trends, Key Trial Data at TCT 2009
Gregg W. Stone, M.D., offered a preview Sept. 10 of some of the key, late-breaking clinical trials and trends in interventional cardiology that will be presented during...
Read More September 10, 2009
Head to Head Trial Shows Ticagrelor Reduced Cardiovascular Death, MI Over Clopidogrel
September 1, 2009 – AstraZeneca last week announced results from the phase III head to head trial, PLATO (A Study of Platelet Inhibition and Patient Outcomes), which...
Read More September 1, 2009
Data From Eight Drug Clinical Trials Presented at Heart Failure 2009
June 1, 2009 - Results and updates from eight studies were presented during a late-breaking trials session at Heart Failure 2009, May 30 – June 2 in Nice, France....
Read More June 1, 2009
WATCHMAN Device May Offer Alternative to Blood-Thinners, Lowers Stroke Risk in AF Patients
April 2, 2009 - A device implanted in the heart using minimally invasive techniques may replace the most widely prescribed drug for stroke prevention in patients with...
Read More April 2, 2009
Cardiac Catheter Ablation Takes Aim at Atrial Fibrillation
The practice of cardiac catheter ablation may experience a big boost as catheter ablation systems are poised to be indicated for the treatment of atrial fibrillation...
Read More February 11, 2009
WEB EXCLUSIVE - Making Sense of the Volumes of Stent Presentations Made at TCT 2008
The stent wars continued at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2008 20th annual symposium last week with scores of study presentations and a steady stream of...
Read More October 21, 2008