Latest Cardiac surgery Stories

Study is only one of its kind to evaluate minimally invasive valve surgery approach in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery has published a first of its kind study conducted at Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida reporting the outcomes of minimally invasive valve surgery versus traditional median sternotomy in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...

WAYNE, N.J., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MAQUET Medical Systems USA, a leader in extracorporeal life support (ECLS) systems, today announced that its CARDIOHELP System has been used successfully in 100 cases in patients whose heart and/or lungs are failing since the System was launched in the United States last year. "The completion of the 100th case using CARDIOHELP in the United States is a testament to the extreme versatility of the device and its remarkable ability to provide...

KIRKLAND, Wash., Sept. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Cardiac Dimensions(®),( )Inc. today announced that it has initiated its commercial efforts in Europe, treating the first patients with its CARILLON® Mitral Contour System® under its Conformite Europeenne (CE) Mark approval. The CARILLON system is a novel, minimally invasive therapy for treating heart patients suffering from functional mitral regurgitation (FMR). An estimated 70 percent of the 20 million people worldwide with heart...

Breakthrough heart-assist technique, led by Cardiovascular Institute heart specialist Dr. Theodore Schreiber, underlines DMC role as national innovator in cardiac care; patient "comfortable and already back at work" one day after painless, 60-minute procedure Physicians and patient are available for interviews DETROIT, Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) announced today that the hospital group's Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) has conducted the...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (September 2012) has published a Mount Sinai Medical Center of Miami Beach study that reports the superiority of a hybrid approach to treating coronary valvular disease. The study revealed that patients who had coronary artery intervention (stenting) combined with minimally invasive valve surgery had significantly better outcomes than patients who had standard sternotomy...

TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SynCardia Systems, Inc. (www.syncardia.com), manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, announced today that the first patient to receive the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart at Ankara University Heart Center in Turkey has been discharged from the hospital. The patient, 47-year-old Arif Sahin, is currently waiting for a matching donor heart with his family...

NATICK, Mass., Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BridgePoint Medical, Inc., a privately held company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. BridgePoint Medical has developed a proprietary, catheter-based system to treat coronary chronic total occlusions (CTOs). The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2012 subject to customary closing conditions. The BridgePoint Medical CTO system...

--"Encouraging" Short-Term Data from Innovative Product to Treat Mitral Regurgitation Using Transcatheter Approach-- --Chronic Animal Studies Underway in Preparation for Potential First Human Implantations in 2013-- TSX Venture Exchange: NVC VANCOUVER, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Neovasc Inc. (TSXV: NVC) today announced that acute results from preclinical studies of its Tiara(TM )valve for the transcatheter treatment of mitral regurgitation were published in the...

LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CBH is the first hospital in Central Kentucky to perform the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure. Four patients with diseased aortic heart valves who were deemed too sick to withstand conventional open-heart surgery to replace their valves have undergone this new heart valve replacement procedure at Central Baptist Hospital. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...

James Hammel, M.D., shares expertise with surgeons from U.S., Europe OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congenital heart surgeon James Hammel, M.D., on Thursday presented a video demonstration of a novel infant cardiac surgical technique at the joint meeting of the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society and the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association in Chicago. The technique allows many complex heart defect repairs, including the Norwood operation for...