Heart Failure November 6, 2025
Stem cell therapy for post-MI heart failure might deserve a second look, after the PREVENT-TAHA8 trial demonstrated that mesenchymal stem cell infusion within days of STEMI significantly reduced 3-year HF incidence. Based in Iran, the PREVENT-TAHA8 trial, randomized 396 patients following LAD STEMI with LVEF <40%, to receive either an intracoronary mesenchymal stem cell infusion […]
Structural Heart November 3, 2025
New research presented at TCT 2025 suggests that Abbott’s FDA-approved Tendyne TMVR system leads to significantly better health outcomes in patients with severe mitral annular calcification who were previously considered untreatable. The SUMMIT-MAC trial enrolled 103 patients with severe MAC and found that the challenging patient population showed strong outcomes despite extreme pathology… However, patients […]
Cardiology October 30, 2025
This year marked the 37th Annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference, and while the core of the conference is still catheter-based heart therapies, this year’s research studies and device demonstrations made it clearer than ever that cardiac medtech continues to push the boundaries of what can be done with a catheter. Structural Heart is King – […]