Medtronic landed FDA clearance for its CardioInsight 3D cardiac mapping system that’s used to locate sources of arrhythmias. The system consists of an ECG vest with a whopping 252 electrodes. It’s used to collect highly detailed skin surface electric signal data while the patient is inside a CT scanner. This data is overlaid onto the resulting […]
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BIOTRONIK is releasing a new line of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) implants, the Ilivia series, that are designed to improve patient response to the therapy and make it customizable for individual needs. The devices are compatible under MRI and feature the company’s MRI AutoDetect capability that automatically switches the devices to a special safe mode […]
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“Antiadrenergic drugs seem to have the greatest protective effect,” say researchers, noting perhaps cardiologists and ophthalmologists should work jointly in prevention or treatment of some eye diseases.
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Spectranetics, a Colorado Springs, CO firm, won FDA 510(k) clearance for its Bridge Occlusion Balloon, a device used to block large vessels, typically the superior vena cava (SVC), if a tear happens while removing cardiac leads. Though tears are rare, when they do happen the rapid blood loss can be difficult to manage. The Bridge Occlusion […]
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There must have been one or two love songs that predicted optogenetic cardiac pacing with words like “you are the light that makes my heart beat.” Now the idea has literally come true thanks to researchers at Israel’s Technion-Institute of Technology who were able to use light pulses in a manner of a cardiac pacemaker to […]
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There must have been one or two love songs that predicted optogenetic cardiac pacing with words like “you are the light that makes my heart beat.” Now the idea has literally come true thanks to researchers at Israel’s Technion-Institute of Technology who were able to use light pulses in a manner of a cardiac pacemaker to […]
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Henry Black and George Lundberg on combating the misinformation in consumer medical news, the ethics of the physician as entertainer, and other ills that plague medical reporting. Medscape Cardiology
“There is certainly no epidemic of cataracts among our longtime lipid-clinic patients,” notes an editorial. But if the risk is confirmed, it may have to be part of the statin conversation with patients.
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Late Monday, the American Board of Internal Medicine posted a statement on its website in response to the cardiology-led petition to recall the recent changes to the MOC process. Heartwire
April 30 is the last day physicians can register for the controversial maintenance of certification. In the meantime, almost 8500 physicians have signed a cardiologist-led petition protesting the new requirements. Heartwire
Many individuals with Marfan syndrome remain undiagnosed, and in spite of a much-improved chance of a normal lifespan, the risk of sudden death remains for untreated individuals. Mayo Clinic
Nicardipine had been used in some EU countries for controlled hypotension during anesthesia and in the setting of LV decompensation and pulmonary edema. No more, an EMA review has recommended. Heartwire
Help or harm? Past studies have contradicted one another on the subject of cataract risk and statin use. A new large cohort analysis has used propensity matching to try to reduce the risk of confounding. Heartwire