Nearly 6.7 million adults in the U.S. have heart failure, with prevalence expected to rise to 8.5 million by 20301,2. While heart failure is a chronic, progressive disease, advances in technology are ...

One of the benefits of interventional cardiology fellowship training is the exposure to new technology. Two newly approved devices—the CardioMems heart failure monitoring system (St Jude Medical) and ...

Using the device also seems to cut rates of HF hospitalization compared with the two comparator groups (P<0.01 and P<0.0001, respectively), Dr Nirav Raval (Florida Hospital Transplant Institute, ...

St. Jude Medical was confident that a novel cardiac device with proven outcomes would be adopted quickly, but is facing reimbursement's unrelenting brick wall. Arundhati Parmar Sometimes the best laid ...