Vectorious Medical Technologies Announces First U.S. Patient Implanted with the V-LAP Left Atrial Pressure Sensor
A patient in Cincinnati has become the first in the United States to receive an innovative system that enables remote monitoring of his heart and congestion status, as well as self-adjustment of diuretics. Vectorious Medical Technologies Ltd. developed a miniature pressure sensor that is implanted…
IMA to Organize Conference on “Multispecialities Cardio Reno Metabolic & HF in Women” Tomorrow
A day long “Multispecialities Cardio Reno Metabolic Conference & HF in Women” is being organized by Indian Medical Association (IMA), New Delhi Branch, Healthy Heart Society & Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, tomorrow at IIC, Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate,…
First-Ever Combined Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant Gives New Hope to Patient with Terminal Illness
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery in a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure—a confluence of advances that showcase the possibility and hope of modern medicine. Doctors…
Ferinject® approved by Health Canada for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia in adult and pediatric patients and iron deficiency in adult patients with heart failure
CSL Vifor today announced that Health Canada has authorized Ferinject (ferric carboxymaltose) for the intravenous (IV) treatment of iron deficiency anemia in adult and pediatric patients one year of age and older when oral iron preparations are not tolerated or are ineffective,…
St. Elizabeth Healthcare First in Kentucky to Implant New Device To Treat Abnormal Heart Rhythm
Doctors with the Florence Wormald Heart & Vascular Institute at St. Elizabeth Healthcare are the first in Kentucky and the Greater Cincinnati region to implant the Aurora EV-ICD™ system — a new device to treat fast or irregular heartbeats and prevent sudden cardiac arrest. J. Christian Hays, MD,…
Positive results from first-in-human completely leadless CRT in the US, published in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology
EBR Systems, Inc. (ASX:EBR), the medical device company developing wireless cardiac pacing systems, is proud to announce that positive results from the first completely leadless cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in the United States have been published in The Journal of American College of Cardiology (JACC). The positive results published in JACC are based on a 1-year follow-up…
First Patient with NyokAssist™ Interventional Ventricular Assist Device: Dr. Junbo Ge’s team successfully completed the first high-risk PCI treatment supported by the new generation of interventional VAD
Recently, NyokAssist™ was first-in-man (FIM) use, supporting High-risk PCI completed by Dr. Junbo Ge’s team from Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai. This successful implementation of HRPCI initially confirmed the safety and effectiveness of NyokAssist™ in assisting high-risk PCI. The patient is…
Fortis Bangalore Gives Second Life to Three Senior Citizens Suffering from Heart Failure and Comorbidities via Impella; World’s Smallest Heart Pump
Fortis Bangalore gave a new lease of life to three elderly people who had been suffering from a failing heart for long by conducting complex angioplasties with the assistance of Impella Heart Pump within a span of 30 days. The…
