1. MAQUET Cardiovascular Makes CABG-Related Announcement
(Company News/MAQUET Cardiovascular LLC)

... infection.     These findings are based on observational data from 5,825 heart surgery patients whose saphenous vein bypass grafts were obtained using MAQUET's EVH VASOVIEW technology  ...

2. The Valley Hospital Selects ProVation MD
(Company News/ProVation Medical)

... range of diagnostic and interventional cardiac treatment services, including cardiac surgery, coronary angioplasty and electrophysiology studies. At the forefront of new techniques in open heart surgery, ...

3. FDA Approves Medtronic Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve
(Company News/Medtronic)

... of their pulmonary valve, which is the valve between the heart and lungs. These patients often require open-heart surgery to restore effective blood flow to their lungs. Previously, the only way to repair ...

4. MAQUET Receives Two-Year Contract with Novation
(Company News/MAQUET Cardiovascular LLC)

...  Beating heart surgery, or off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) as it is also called, is performed without the use of a heart-lung machine, allowing the heart to continue beating during the surgical ...

5. World’s First Person to Undergo Heart Operation Using Cyberknife
(Modalities/Radiology )

A 67-year-old British man has undergone a successful heart surgery using the revolutionary Cyberknife technology for the first time ever. Michael Kilby, who comes from Moreton in Marsh, Glouchestershire, ...

6. Top Heart Surgeons to Convene at SGPGIMS
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... the latest technique where aortic valve in the heart is being planted without an open heart surgery. Heart specialists from US would be stressing on preventive cardiology wherein the experts would be ...

7. Tech-Savvy Surgeon A Medical Ambassador for Repairing Cardiac Defects
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... through “shutter glasses” a surgeon can wear while performing heart surgery. Children’s Hospital colleague Dr. Nikolay Vasilyev, a Russian native, whom del Nido recruited from the Cleveland Clinic five ...

8. St. John Medical Center gets Approval for Angioplasty Program
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... up to the same specifications and will be ready next month. Patients needing open heart surgery will still have to go to Vancouver or Portland. Adding the PCI procedure will allow St. John to increase ...

9. MAQUET Cardiovascular Announces Dedication of Its New United States Headquarters in Wayne, NJ
(Company News/MAQUET Cardiovascular LLC)

...  MAQUET Cardiovascular was formed in 2003 when MAQUET combined its existing Cardiopulmonary business with Jostra's equipment and consumables for open heart surgery and Siemens Life Support Systems that ...

10. An Analysis of Medical Device Industry in China With Reference to The Chinese Healthcare Reform
(Healthcare Reform/Healthcare Reform)

... complicated heart surgery.  The market for angioplasty and stents, especially drug-eluting stents, is taking off and there are already several domestic companies seeking to gain market share. Every year, ...

11. Syngo DynaCT Cardiac from Siemens: 3D images for cardiovascular imaging
(Company News/Siemens Healthcare)

...  For most patients worldwide, open heart surgery is performed for the placement of an aortic valve prosthesis. The most frequent reason for this intervention is the constriction of the valve, so-called ...

12. Aurora Health Care Selects Patient Care Technology Systems' Asset Tracking Solution
(Company News/Patient Care Technology Systems )

... for minimally invasive, robotically-assisted heart surgery and has earned a reputation as one of Wisconsin’s leading medical centers. Aurora Health Care has been named one of the Most Wired health care ...

13. iCAD Installs New Technology for Prostate MRI Image Analysis at Research Medical Center
(Company News/iCAD, Inc. )

... cerebrovascular disease. Many of these patients have to choose between coming off this medication and having a prostate biopsy. In addition, people who have had heart surgery and people with the following ...

14. WMHS to Deploy Agfa's Cardiovascular Image and Information Management Solution
(Company News/Agfa HealthCare)

... range of cardiac diagnostic and treatment services, including open-heart surgery and angioplasty. Source: Agfa Healthcare  ...

15. Bypass May be Less Dangerous for Older Diabetics than Angioplasty: Study Shows
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

The choices you have on lifesaving heart surgery largely depends on your age and whether you have diabetes, according to an assessment of the two rival procedures by researchers. A study designed ...

16. Ventricular septal defect in childhood does not limit exercise capacity
(Communities/Pulmonary Thoracic)

Children with an isolated ventricular septal defect are generally as healthy and physically fit as other children and should not be discouraged from engaging in strenuous exercise... a Dutch research ...

17. Issues in pediatric cardiology
(Imported/Imported)

... studies have measured contractility in the ventricles of infants, it is unknown whether treatments designed for adults following heart surgery are beneficial or harmful to this patient population. A study ...

18. Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital performs transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement
(Communities/Pulmonary Thoracic)

... clinical research trial. Currently, babies with absent or defective pulmonary valves may require open-heart surgery to implant a valved-conduit (a two-inch tube with a valve inside) to open the connection ...

19. Brains of term infants with heart disease resemble those of preemies
(Imported/Imported)

... many as half of all infants born with congenital heart disease who survive heart surgery are known to suffer widespread deficits in cognition, including memory, attention, and higher-order language skills, ...

20. For babies with heart defects, death risk is far lower at most experienced hospitals
(Imported/Imported)

... congenital heart surgery, outcomes are excellent everywhere," says Hirsch. "But when it comes to a child with a complex defect, it's important to send him or her to a center of excellence. And the parents ...