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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 […]
Cardiology Pharmaceuticals March 27, 2025
Ezetimibe Plus Statins Equals Better Outcomes March 27, 2025
New results from a vast Mayo Clinic meta-analysis suggest that combining ezetimibe with statins to lower LDL-C could have significant mortality and MACE benefits over statin monotherapy. Digging through decades of data from PubMed, Embase, and ClinicalTrials.gov, researchers pooled all relevant articles published through June 2024 (108k patients) and found that a combination lipid-lowering therapy […]
