Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases

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05/14/2013

The first human implantations of bioprosthetic artificial hearts

CARMAT, the designer and developer of the world’s most advanced project of total artificial heart, announces today that it has obtained the approval of four renowned …

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05/13/2013

Celebrating the 60th birthday of a fabulous lifesaver

This May it will be exactly 60 years since the first extracorporeal circulation device to temporarily replace heart/ lung function was successfully used in a clinical setting. …

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04/09/2013

Survival of SAPIEN high-risk patients equivalent to surgery

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring, announced the three-year results of a pivotal clinical study of …

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03/04/2013

Austria’s cardiovascular research

Arterial stiffness of the central human blood vessels leads to increased work for the heart and damages microstructures in the organs. However, measuring blood vessel elasticity …

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03/04/2013

Implantable cardiac devices

Patients with cardiac implantable electric devices (CIED) need ongoing and lifelong follow-ups. Due to the growing number of CIEDs, the demand for follow-up visits is increasing …

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02/05/2013

Genetic variation doubles risk of aortic valve calcification

Study described in The New England Journal of Medicine is the first to show cause-and-effect relationship between a gene variant and calcium deposits on the aortic valve. …

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01/30/2013

Marriage reduces the risk of heart attack

A large population-based study from Finland has shown that being unmarried increases the risk of fatal and non-fatal heart attack in both men and women whatever their age. …

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01/28/2013

Still a challenge

Can an anaesthetist treat a patient with heart failure (HF) without any specialist knowledge of cardiology? That was the question posed by Dr Florian Weis, from the Clinic of …

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01/23/2013

Bilateral initiation

Renowned French and German cardiovascular researchers gathered in October at the French Embassy in Berlin for a one-day symposium entitled ‘The Frontiers of Cardiovascular …

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12/12/2012

Agreement to introduce high standard of care to Bulgarian patients

Royal Philips Electronics today announced the signing of an agreement with City Hospitals & Clinics, a Bulgarian healthcare group, to equip their new hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria. …

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11/24/2012

France: 61-year-old receives the first fully-biodegradable stent

A novel, entirely biodegradable device has been successfully implanted in a blocked artery patient needing a percutaneous coronary intervention …

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11/02/2012

Tracking the source of heart failure

To treat heart problems, common sense says we should look to the heart. New European research based on an advanced ultrasound system suggests that stiffening of the arteries plays …

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10/29/2012

Total artificial hearts and ventricular assist devices today

Artificial hearts, originally designed to bridge the time on the waiting list for a heart transplant, in recent years have increasingly become an independent treatment option for …

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10/29/2012

Hearts in motion

Ultrasound is enthusiastically embraced by cardiologists in guidelines as essential for evaluating a patient's heart. Now visualisation of 3-D wall motion takes ultrasound to a …

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09/04/2012

Magellan is quick and good for complex ops

Surgeons at a leading UK hospital are pioneering robotic endovascular surgery to treat patients with complex conditions. …

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08/27/2012

Toshiba presents advances in Cardiac Imaging at ESC 2012

Cardiology is playing an increasingly important role in today’s healthcare environment and, as a direct result, cardiologists are facing new challenges almost every day. …

08/25/2012

Teamwork works well in Hamburg

One heart – One Team, the motto for this year’s German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Congress emphasises that cardiac surgeons and cardiologists must now …

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08/25/2012

Unnerved by denervation

Cardiologists are increasingly concerned about patients with persistent hypertension demanding a new technique, in the absence of clinical proof of its long-term benefit. As more …

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08/25/2012

Acute myocardial infarction

Could bone marrow cells prolong life? Recruitment of 3,000 patients will begin across the EU later this year for the BAMI (Bone Marrow Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction) study, …

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08/25/2012

CT coronary angiography

Cardiovascular diseases, the most common cause of death in the West, includes diseases for which early detection is an important objective in cardiac imaging – particularly for …

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