Atrial Fibrillation
April 7, 2025
PFA or Cryoballoon for Paroxysmal AFib? April 7, 2025
Expanding the potential patient population for pulsed field ablation, results from the SINGLE SHOT CHAMPION study suggest PFA might be just as good as cryoballoon ablation for patients with paroxysmal AFib. In one of the first PFA versus cryoballoon head-to-heads, researchers randomized 210 patients with symptomatic paroxysmal AFib to undergo PFA with Boston Scientific’s Farapulse […]
Cardiology
April 3, 2025
The Top Trends of ACC.25 April 3, 2025
The ACC 2025 meeting is all wrapped up after matching the attendance and excitement of last year’s expo, with a clear trend toward better diagnostics and even better pharmaceuticals. Among dozens of highlights, here are Cardiac Wire’s seven biggest trends from ACC.25. The Takeaway From software and hardware innovations in the exhibit hall to strong […]
Surgeries & Interventions
March 31, 2025
Abbott Enters Burgeoning IVL Segment March 31, 2025
Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) may have once been synonymous with Shockwave Medical, but it’s now rapidly becoming one of the hottest segments in interventional cardiology, spurred on by Abbott’s new IVL Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the FDA. Abbott’s new IVL IDE was two years in the making following its $890M acquisition of Cardiovascular Systems in 2023 […]
