Durable LVAD for Advanced HF Still Underutilized Durable LVAD for Advanced HF Still Underutilized
Durable mechanical circulatory support is an important treatment option for patients with advanced heart failure, but remains underutilized, a new JACC scientific statement concludes.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - October 20, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Pig-Heart Transplant Recipient Is Doing Well After a Month
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig—and hospital video released Friday shows he’s working hard to recover.
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Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine offered the highly experimental surgery.
In the first glimpse of Faucette provided since the Sept. 20 transplant, hospital video shows physical therapist Chris Wells urging him to push through a peda...
Source: TIME: Science - October 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: LAURAN NEERGAARD / AP Tags: Uncategorized Innovation wire Source Type: news
Arlington's Ventricle Health raises $8M to democratize heart failure care
The investment round was led by Boston's RA Capital Management alongside Waterline Ventures of Cambridge, Massachusetts and other investors. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - October 18, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Donte Kirby Source Type: news
Top trends impacting the ultrasound market
Mustafa Hassan of Signify Research.The ultrasound market is going through one of the most exciting and innovative periods in its history. The handheld ultrasound market is still maturing, there are many new technologies being developed such as ultrasound patches and wearable transducers, opening new avenues for diagnostic use. Elsewhere, compact systems are becoming larger and more technically capable, and there is a wider range of cart systems available, both at more flexible price points for customers and offering more portability. Combined with the growing use of AI technology to support image acquisition and interpreta...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 17, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Mustafa Hassan Tags: Ultrasound Technology Review Source Type: news
Trials Say Start ARNI in Hospital in HF,'Below Normal' LVEF Trials Say Start ARNI in Hospital in HF,'Below Normal' LVEF
Filling an evidence gap, a pooled analysis of patients with heart failure ' across the LVEF spectrum ' supports starting sacubitril-valsartan in the hospital.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - October 13, 2023 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
CAC measurements on nongated chest CT improve surgery risk assessment
Estimating the prevalence and severity of coronary artery calcium (CAC) using data gleaned from nongated chest CT imaging improves risk assessment of postsurgical major clinical events before a patient undergoes noncardiac surgery, according to research published in the October 10 issue of Circulation.The study results could improve patients' surgical outcomes, wrote a team led by Daniel Choi, MD, of New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York City. "[Our study found that] prevalence and severity of coronary calcium from preexisting, preoperative, nongated chest CT imaging were associated with stepwise in...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 13, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News CT Source Type: news
What Is a Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction? What Is a Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction?
Multiple studies have suggested conflicting LVEF thresholds for predicting outcome in heart failure. Is there is no clear range at which we can say the LVEF is normal?Circulation (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology Journal Article Source Type: news
Hopeful Insights, No Overall HFpEF Gains from Splanchnic Nerve Ablation: REBALANCE-HF Hopeful Insights, No Overall HFpEF Gains from Splanchnic Nerve Ablation: REBALANCE-HF
An otherwise negative trial may have identified a subgroup of patients likely to respond well to this potential transcatheter therapy for heart failure.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Novel Nerve Ablation Procedure Explored for HFpEF
(MedPage Today) -- CLEVELAND -- Splanchnic nerve ablation was safe in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and showed some signal of benefit in volume management in the REBALANCE-HF feasibility study.
The treatment showed a... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - October 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Copper-Boosting Agent Promising for Low Ejection Fraction Heart Failure
(MedPage Today) -- CLEVELAND -- Lower doses of copper chelator trientine hydrochloride (Syprine) appeared safe and potentially promising for heart failure with low ejection fraction in a phase IIa trial, despite a missed primary endpoint.
Twice... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - October 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Modest Risks Come With Moving Fast on HF Drugs After Acute Event
(MedPage Today) -- CLEVELAND -- Adverse events were common with rapid initiation and titration of heart failure medication around a heart failure hospitalization, but they didn't impact key clinical outcome benefits, analysis of the STRONG-HF... (Source: MedPage Today Nephrology)
Source: MedPage Today Nephrology - October 10, 2023 Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: news
‘ Hospital at Home ’ Could Be the Future of Health Care. Not Everyone Thinks It ’ s a Good Idea
In July 2022, Rudie Watzig collapsed. The diagnosis was as serious as it was unexpected—cirrhosis of the liver—and it landed him in the intensive care unit for what he considered a period of sheer torture. “I hated it. I hated being in the hospital,” says Watzig, 44, of Portland, Oregon. “Not seeing my kids … not having my wife there … not having my nice Purple mattress to sleep on.”
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So imagine his chagrin when he was again rushed to the emergency room a few months later, this time for breathing problems due to fluid buildup ...
Source: TIME: Health - October 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsay Lyon Tags: Uncategorized Health Care Source Type: news
Episode 11: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Pregnancy in Heart Failure Episode 11: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Pregnancy in Heart Failure
Drs Michelle M. Kittleson and Kathryn J. Lindley discuss current approaches to treating patients with peripartum cardiomyopathy as well as patients with heart failure who want to become pregnant.Medscape (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology InDiscussion Source Type: news
AHN Cardiovascular Institute at Allegheny General Hospital First in Region to Participate in International Clinical Trial for New Heart Failure Treatment
Allegheny General Hospital, the flagship academic medical center of Allegheny Health Network, today announced it is the first hospital in western Pennsylvania to begin enrolling patients in a new clinical trial to evaluate a first-of-its-kind treatment option for heart failure.... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - October 10, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: TRI Source Type: news
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center now performing heart transplants
Beth Israel Lahey Health was treated thousands of patients with heart failure, but recently announced that it will expand its program to include heart transplantation. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - October 9, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Cassie McGrath Source Type: news
