CMS proposed changing the definition of surgery to account for “surgery-like” procedures in the 2019 proposed payment rule for ASCs and hospital outpatient departments, which could add cardiac ...

Medtronic has recalled certain DLP Left Heart Vent Catheters due to a defect that could cause serious injury or death. The recall applies to model numbers 12110, 12113 and 12115 with UDI-DIs ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PHILADELPHIA — Following left heart catheterization, offloading measured by left ventricular end-diastolic ...

Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of California, Irvine, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in ...

Cardiac ablation—also called catheter ablation—is a procedure doctors use to treat irregular heartbeats or arrhythmias. During cardiac ablation, doctors insert a thin tube called a catheter into your ...

LESIONS of the left side of the heart, both congenital and acquired, demand precise physiologic and anatomic diagnosis for accurate surgical relief. This is especially true in infants and children.

Stereotaxis plans to launch the MAGiC cardiac ablation catheter in early 2026, CEO and Chair David Fischel tells MassDevice.

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Patient well-being was better among individuals allowed more liberal oral intake before entering the catheterization lab, the randomized CALORI trial showed. Compared to standard ...

No restriction of oral food intake prior to nonemergent cardiac catheterization is as safe as the current traditional NPO [nothing by mouth] strategy, results from a large, single-center, randomized ...

Stereotaxis has won FDA approval for the MAGiC Magnetic Interventional Ablation Catheter. The device is a robotically ...