Carag Receives U.S. FDA IDE Approval to Conduct Clinical Study of First Transcatheter Septal Occluder With Bioresorbable, Metal-free Framework
The U.S. trial for CE-marked CBSO is designed to enroll up to 250 patients in a staged study approach
BAAR, Switzerland, July 1, 2020 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- CARAG AG, a privately-held Swiss medical device development company, toda... Devices, Interventional, Cardiology, FDA Carag AG, Carag Bioresorbable Septal Occluder, atrial septal defects (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - July 1, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
What Causes Bradycardia?
Discussion
Bradycardia is a heart rate below what the lowest value that is normal for age. Infants and children have higher heart rates that slowly decrease with age to adult levels. It is usually noted as an incidental finding because of increased vagal tone. Reasons for cardiology referral include associated heart murmur, syncope especially if associated with exercise or unusual triggers, other signs such as chest pain or palpitations, family history of sudden cardiac death, congenital heart disease or familial heart disease, bradycardic medication use, or unusual symptoms associated with the concern. Severe bradycardia ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - June 22, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
What Causes Tachycardia?
Discussion
Tachycardia is a rapid heart rate that is above normal for age and level of exertion. Tachycardia is common, particularly sinus tachycardia due to normally encountered circumstances such as pain, fever or exercise. It is usually a normal physiologic process but sustained tachycardia often indicates a potentially abnormal underlying cause.
Sinus tachycardia has a rapid heart rate with normal P waves and P-R intervals and variations from moment to moment and respiration. Generally it is not over 200 beats/minute. Vagal stimulation can slow the heart rate; this is a gradual slowing, not an abrupt slowing seen in ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 23, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Malawi: Mchinji Toddler With Hole in Heart Seeks Help
[Malawi News Agency] Mchinji -A two-year-old girl from Baziliyo Viillage Traditional Authority (TA) Zulu in Mchinji, Elube Kang'ombe needs K250, 000.00 support from well-wishers after being diagnosed with a rare heart condition called Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 6, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Malawi: Toddler With Hole in Heart Seeks Help
[Nyasa Times] A two-year-old girl from Baziliyo Village Traditional Authority (TA) Zulu in Mchinji, Elube Kang'ombe needs K250 000 support from well-wishers after being diagnosed with a rare heart condition called Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 3, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Odds of Autism Up in Children With Congenital Heart Disease
Higher odds seen for specific lesions, including atrial, ventricular septal defects (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry)
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry - October 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Cardiology, Family Medicine, Neurology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Journal, Source Type: news
Report looks at pediatric heart surgery outcomes at Pennsylvania children's hospitals
The mortality rates for pediatric and congenital heart surgery performed at Pennsylvania children's hospitals were at or below risk-adjusted rates, according to a report released this week by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
The PHC4 report looks at outcomes for 10 such procedures — such as ventricular septal defect repair and complete atrioventricular canal repair — performed at five children’s hospitals in Pennsylvania and one in Delaware between 2014 and 2017. Those… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - June 13, 2019 Category: Biotechnology Authors: John George Source Type: news
Report looks at pediatric heart surgery outcomes at area children's hospitals
The mortality rates for pediatric and congenital heart surgery performed at area children's hospitals were at or below risk-adjusted rates, according to a report released this week by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
The PHC4 report looks at outcomes for 10 such procedures — such as ventricular septal defect repair and complete atrioventricular canal repair — performed at five children’s hospitals in Pennsylvania and one in Delaware between 2014 and 2017. Those medical… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - June 13, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: John George Source Type: news
GORE(R) CARDIOFORM ASD Occluder Receives FDA Approval for the Treatment of Atrial Septal Defects
Data from the Gore ASSURED Clinical Study demonstrated 100 percent closure success at six months
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., June 4, 2019 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration'... Devices, Interventional, Cardiology, FDA W. L. Gore, patent foramen ovale, CARDIOFORM, Septal Occluder (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - June 4, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Five-month-old twin girls have never left hospital because they're too weak for heart surgery
Natasha and Hermione Sutcliffe, from Dundee, weighed just five pounds each when they were born and were found to have ventricular septal defects – holes in their hearts – which need repairing. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
#MayoClinicRadio podcast: 2/23/19
Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 2/23/19 Structural heart disease is a problem with the tissues or valves of the heart. On the Mayo Clinic Radio podcast, Dr. Peter Pollak, director of Structural Heart Disease at Mayo Clinic's Florida campus, discusses?mitral valve disease and another structural heart disease problem, patent foramen ovale?--?a hole in the heart that [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - February 25, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Abbott wins FDA approval for Amplatzer Piccolo occluder for neonates
The FDA granted pre-market approval for the Amplatzer Piccolo occluder made by Abbott (NYSE:ABT) to treat a congenital heart defect in neonatal infants as small as two pounds, the company said today.
The Chicago-area healthcare giant said Amplatzer Piccolo is a transcatheter, self-expanding, wire mesh device that’s inserted via the aortic or pulmonary artery to close a hole in the heart known as patent ductus arteriosus.
“Piccolo is a critical advancement in the standard of care for the most vulnerable of premature babies who may not be able to undergo surgery to repair their hearts,” structural heart V...
Source: Mass Device - January 14, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Cardiac Implants Featured Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Pediatrics Abbott Source Type: news
Traumatic ventricular septal defect resulting from a motor vehicle collision - Tonks R, Perkel D, Wehber A, Rogers B.
This case report describes a rare case of ventricular septal defect due to non-penetrating trauma in a 43 year old male involved in a motor vehicle collision. The diagnosis was made by echocardiogram and the patient was taken immediately to the operating r... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 15, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Nigeria:Baby Osemudiamen Urgently Needs N2.5 Million for Hole-in-the-Heart Surgery
[This Day] Nine months old Osemudiamen Edionseri from Edo State urgently needs at least N2.5 million for a hole-in-the-heart surgery if he must live beyond the next few months and fulfill his life's dream. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 23, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria:Young Umoru Needs N4 Million to Correct Hole in the Heart
[Guardian] Benin City -The joy in the family of Afekhide Umoru from Ososo in Akoko-Edo local government area of Edo State when doctors told him that his barely one year old marriage would soon produce an offspring as his wife, Vivian had become pregnant, is almost in ruins. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 19, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
