Surgeries & Interventions
April 24, 2025
RESILIA’s Eight Year Results Impress for SAVR April 24, 2025
Eight-year data presented at HVS 2025 suggests that SAVR valves that use Edwards Lifesciences’ RESILIA tissue have better long-term outcomes compared to non-RESILIA bioprosthetic SAVR valves. The eight year data is the longest follow-up for valve tissue technology to date and comes from 947 patients in the COMMENCE and MAGNA EASE studies who received SAVR […]
Artificial Intelligence
April 21, 2025
How AI is Expanding ECG and Echo’s Applications April 21, 2025
Building stronger evidence for AI’s place in cardiology, this week brought several examples of how AI can improve ECG use cases and automate Echo for new disease detection methods. Starting with AI improving ECG for coronary revascularization, a deep learning ECG model outperformed both clinician-led ECG and troponin T testing in predicting which ED patients […]
Cardiology Pharmaceuticals
April 17, 2025
Verve Vaults Forward From Topline Results April 17, 2025
Completing its pharma comeback story, Verve Therapeutics announced successful results from the Heart-2 Phase 1b Clinical Trial of its in-vivo base editing drug, VERVE-102, that targets the PCSK9 gene for reducing LDL-C. VERVE-102’s topline results come from a small group of 14 patients across three different dose cohorts (weight-based cohorts of 0.3, 0.45, and 0.6mg/kg) […]