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Volta Medical—a company that develops artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to assist electrophysiologists—has announced the appointment of Bill Hoffman as executive chairman of its board of directors. A press release states that Hoffman “brings a track record of guiding innovative startups to global success”. As former chief executive officer (CEO) of Inari Medical, Hoffman oversaw its growth from […]
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Mashup Score: 0First cases performed with AtriClip PRO-Mini LAA exclusion system - Cardiac Rhythm News - 17 day(s) ago
AtriCure has announced the first use of the newest AtriClip device for minimally invasive concomitant procedures, the AtriClip PRO-Mini left atrial appendage (LAA) exclusion system. The AtriClip PRO-Mini device received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance earlier this year and builds upon the technology of the widely used AtriClip platform. The device is […]
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Mashup Score: 0Use of antidepressant medication linked to substantial increase in sudden cardiac death risk - 20 day(s) ago
The use of antidepressant (AD) medications has been linked to a substantial increase in the risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD), as per research presented at the recent European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) congress (30 March–1 April 2025, Vienna, Austria). According to a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) press release, causes of SCD in people […]
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Mashup Score: 0Biological heart age measured via AI analyses of ECG data could predict mortality and cardiovascular event risks - 21 day(s) ago
A new study presented by researchers at the 2025 European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) congress (30 March–1 April, Vienna, Austria) demonstrates how, using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse standard 12-lead electrocardiograph (ECG) data taken from almost half a million cases, they were able to create an algorithm to predict the ‘biological age’ of the heart. This […]
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Mashup Score: 8European registry elucidates safety outcomes of ventricular arrhythmia treatment with Affera system - 22 day(s) ago
A novel cardiac ablation system may hold the potential to improve upon the currently available treatments for ventricular arrhythmia (VA) patients, having demonstrated positive safety signals in a European registry study including more than 100 of these typically challenging cases. Safety data on this technology—the Affera mapping and ablation system (Medtronic), which offers the potential […]
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Pacemaker implantation within 30 days after a transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedure has been found to correlate with significantly higher rates all-cause and cardiovascular-related mortality at up to 10 years of follow-up, as per data from the nationwide SwissTAVI registry. Late-breaking results from this registry were presented by Patrick Badertscher (University Hospital Basel, Basel, […]
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Mashup Score: 5PROFID EHRA: A landmark trial attempting to redefine prevention of sudden cardiac death after myocardial infarction - 23 day(s) ago
In a Cardiac Rhythm News guest article, chief investigators Nikolaos Dagres and Gerhard Hindricks (both Berlin, Germany) provide a window into the PROFID EHRA study—an international, investigator-initiated trial set up with the goal of redefining the prevention of sudden cardiac death (SCD) after myocardial infarction (MI). Preventing SCD following MI remains a key challenge in […]
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Mashup Score: 12J&J’s dual-energy ablation catheter deemed safe and effective in first-in-human SmartfIRE study - 23 day(s) ago
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) MedTech has today announced 12-month results from the SmartfIRE study, delivered as a late-breaking presentation at the ongoing European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) congress (30 March–1 April 2025, Vienna, Austria), with findings showing that use of the company’s dual-energy Thermocool Smarttouch SF catheter was 86.9% effective when patients were treated with […]
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Conformal Medical has announced the enrolment of its 500th patient in the CONFORM investigational device exemption (IDE) trial, the prospective, multicentre, randomised controlled study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the Conformal CLAAS AcuFORM system compared to other commercially available left atrial appendage (LAA) devices. This marks a significant milestone in the, reaching close to […]
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Mashup Score: 3Farapulse PFA system demonstrates superior efficacy to cryoablation catheter in paroxysmal AF patients - 24 day(s) ago
New findings from the SINGLE SHOT CHAMPION trial, presented at the ongoing European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) congress (30 March–1 April 2025, Vienna, Austria) by Tobias Reichlin (Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland), have shown the Farapulse pulsed field ablation (PFA) system (Boston Scientific) to be superior to the Arctic Front Advance cardiac cryoablation catheter (Medtronic) […]
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.@VoltaMedical, a company that develops artificial intelligence solutions to assist electrophysiologists, has announced the appointment of Bill Hoffman as executive chairman of its board of directors https://t.co/LvEEu1oOdT