Cardiac Imaging
March 12, 2026
IVI or Angiography for Complex PCI Guidance? March 12, 2026
New follow-up data from the RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI trial suggests that intravascular imaging continues to provide better clinical outcomes for patients with complex coronary lesions five years after their PCI procedure. The RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI trial originally randomized 1.6k patients with complex coronary lesions to receive either IVI or angiography guided PCI and found that IVI led to a […]
Heart Failure
March 9, 2026
Barostim Boosts QoL and LVEF, but Mortality Benefit Still Unknown March 9, 2026
Strong results from two separate studies on CVRx’s Barostim baroreflex activation therapy suggest the technology might offer symptomatic relief even though its mortality benefit is still up in the air. The first of two Barostim studies discussed at THT 2026, the REBALANCE registry enrolled 435 patients with a low average baseline LVEF, mostly NYHA class […]
Cardiology Testing
March 5, 2026
What NT-proBNP Can Tell Us About TEER Outcomes March 5, 2026
New research presented at THT 2026 suggests that the NT-proBNP biomarker could give us a glimpse into which patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) will benefit the most from transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER). Using data from the EuroTR registry, researchers evaluated 2.2k patients undergoing TEER, and organized them into three NT-proBNP categories (≤1,674, 1,675-3,743, >3,743 […]
