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Natriuretic peptides are the single most important prognostic variable in patients with heart failure. Normally, levels of natriuretic peptides rise in people with heart failure, but patients living with obesity have lower levels than those...

During the minimally invasive AccuCinch System procedure, a flexible implant is attached to the inner wall of the left ventricle and then cinched. The implant is intended to reduce the size of the left ventricle, reduce ventricular wall...

HOUSTON -- Procyrion, Inc., a medical device company dedicated to improving outcomes for patients with cardiac and renal impairment, announced that use of its Aortix™ percutaneous mechanical circulatory support (pMCS) device led to rapid...

The EU-funded DataTools4Heart (DT4H) project is backed by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and coordinated by the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine lab (BCN-AIM), University of Barcelona, Spain.

Sleeping less than five hours a night is associated with a 74% raised likelihood of developing peripheral artery disease (PAD) compared with seven to eight hours.

“Using the TELLTALE device, we were able to successfully treat a patient who was at high risk of TAVR-induced coronary obstruction,” commented Dr. Jaffar Khan. “We were able to cut the diseased valve leaflet out of the way within minutes,...

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GALWAY, Ireland--Vivasure Medical® Limited, a company pioneering novel fully absorbable technology for percutaneous vessel closure, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an Investigational Device...

The bulk of Dr. Al-Kindi’s research focuses on how environmental and socioeconomic factors impact heart health.

While ultrasound assessments are vital to monitoring how critically ill patients who have signs and symptoms of low blood flow are responding to IV fluid, assessments using conventional bedside Doppler ultrasound systems are cumbersome and...