Cardiac Surgery
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Man Receives World's First Wirelessly Powered Heart Pump
Heart pumps are electromechanical devices that have all kinds of limitations placed on them. One of those is that the pumps needs quite a bit of energy to augment blood output, so a power cable protruding through the skin has always been a...
Cardiac Surgery
Heart Implant Measures Left Atrial Pressure to Monitor Heart Failure
Vectorious Medical Technologies, a company based in Israel, has announced that it has developed an unusual intra-cardiac monitoring device that has a built-in microchip but no battery. The V-LAP monitoring device allows patients to take...
Cardiac Surgery
Miniaturized Inhaled Nitric Oxide Delivery Units for Use in a Doctor’s Office
Nu-Med Plus, a medtech firm based in Utah, has developed a range of smart delivery devices for inhaled nitric oxide delivery, including a miniaturized unit that can operate in a doctor’s office. The innovation has been possible as parts of the...
Cardiac Surgery
Computational Model of Heart's Mitral Valve to Predict Surgery Outcomes
Mitral valve repairs are complex surgeries that require particular attention to each patient's unique anatomy, type of regurgitation such as in Carpentier’s classification, and other factors. Recently, transcatheter mitral valve implants have...
Cardiac Surgery
Cook Medical's Zenith Dissection Endovascular Stent for Aortic Tears FDA Approved
The FDA has given approval to Cook Medical's Zenith Dissection Endovascular Stent for treatment of symptomatic aortic dissection distal to the left subclavian artery. It is intended to be used along with the company's Zenith TX2 Dissection...
Cardiac Surgery
More Patients Can Now Be Treated With New SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Aortic Valve
Edwards Lifesciences received FDA approval to introduce its SAPIEN 3 Ultra transcatheter aortic heart valve in the U.S. Specifically, the device is indicated for cases of severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis identified to be at intermediate or...
Cardiac Surgery
Argos Cardiac Output Monitor Now Available in U.S.
Retia Medical, out of Valhalla, New York, won FDA clearance and is making available in the U.S. its Argos Cardiac Output Monitor. For use in the OR and ICU, the product uses the company's MBA algorithm to track both fluid and pressor...
Cardiac Surgery
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Valve for Severe Aortic Stenosis Cleared in Europe
Edwards Lifesciences received European CE Mark approval for its SAPIEN 3 Ultra transcatheter aortic heart valve. Indicated for valve replacement in patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis, the device is available in three sizes (20...
Cardiac Surgery
REVA's Fantom Encore Thin Strut Bioresorbable Scaffold Unveiled
REVA Medical, out of San Diego, California, has released its Fantom Encore bioresorbable scaffold. The implant is made with the company's own Tyrocore polymer that is absorbed by the body over a period of time, eventually disappearing while...
Cardiac Surgery
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