Madrid, septiembre de 2012.- La soledad está históricamente relacionada con un mayor riesgo de sufrir enfermedad y depresión. La Fundación Española del Corazón (FEC) quiere destacar los resultados de un reciente estudio que relaciona, además, el vivir solo con un aumento de la tasa de mortalidad por causa cardiovascular, especialmente entre los mayores de 45 años.
The PROTECT (Patient Related Outcomes with Endeavor versus Cypher stenting trial) study, which was presented as a late-breaking trial at the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC, 25–29 August, Munich, Germany) and simultaneously published online in The Lancet, failed to fulfil its hypothesis that Medtronic’s Endeavor zotarolimus-eluting stent would be superior to Cordis’ Cypher sirolimus-eluting stent in terms of reducing the rate of definite or probable stent thrombosis.
Elixir Medical has received CE mark approval for its Desyne BD Novolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System for the treatment of coronary artery disease.
Medtronic has announced that it has completed high risk patient enrolment in its CoreValveUS pivotal trial. More than 1,500 patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high or extreme risk for aortic valve surgery have been included. In addition, Medtronic received FDA conditional approval to begin evaluating the CoreValve System in patients at intermediate risk for open-heart aortic valve replacement as part of the SURTAVI trial (Surgical replacement and transcatheter aortic valve implantation). The company expects to begin US patient enrolment within weeks.
Cardiologists are restricting the use of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) to very old or very sick patients at high surgical risk, according to research presented at the ESC Congress on 29 August. The first results of the Transcatheter Valve Treatment (TCVT) Sentinel Pilot registry were presented by registry chairman Carlo Di Mario, London, UK.
First results from the German Aortic Valve Registry (GARY) show that participating centres using transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) are adhering to current guidelines for patient selection. Data were presented by Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr, clinic director of the Leipzig Heart Centre, Germany, at a Hot Line session in the ESC Congress (Munich, Germany, 25–29 August 2012)
MUNICH and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Volcano Corporation (NASDAQ: VOLC) a worldwide leader in precision guided therapy tools, today celebrated the publication of the results of the FAME 2 trial in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Volcano also announced participation in the next major international functionally-guided studyISCHEMIA that will include the newest PrimeWire® PRESTIGE PLUS Pressure Guidewires.
August 29, 2012 -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) and Volcano Corporation (NASDAQ: VOLC) today announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to provide interventional cardiologists, cardiac catheterization laboratory managers and cardiovascular service line directors a robust product offering solution to address the spectrum of clinical need in coronary artery disease.
On 26 August 2012, HeartFlow announced that data from the company’s landmark prospective, international DeFACTO (Determination of fractional flow reserve by anatomic computed tomographic angiography) study were presented by principal investigator James K Min, director of Cardiac Imaging Research at the Department of Medicine, Imaging and Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, USA, in a hotline session at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Munich, Germany, and simultaneously published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
On 28 August 2012, St Jude Medical announced results of the FAME II trial demonstrating that patients with fractional flow reverse (FFR)-guided stenting plus the best available medical therapy had superior outcomes to those treated with medical therapy alone. Results published online in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and presented during a Hot Line session at the ESC Congress 2012 (European Society of Cardiology) revealed that use of the PressureWire (technology used to measure blood flow restriction in the coronary arteries) yielded an 86% relative risk reduction for unplanned re-admission to the hospital with urgent revascularisation in patients with stable coronary artery disease.
AstraZeneca has announced that ticagrelor, an oral antiplatelet medicine, received a class I recommendation from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in the revised “Guidelines on the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients Presenting with Persistent ST-Segment Elevation (STEMI)” guidelines. Ticagrelor is known as Brilique in the European Union and Brilinta elsewhere.
Results of a landmark clinical trial, PROTECT, presented for the first time at the 2012 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress, confirm the long-term safety of drug-eluting stents in the treatment of coronary artery disease in real-world clinical practice.
A novel non-invasive device which separates healthy and damaged heart muscle and restores ventricle function improves three-year outcomes in patients with ischaemic heart failure, according to research presented at the ESC Congress 2012 in Munich, Germany. The findings were presented by William T Abraham at an ESC press conference on 25 August and by Marco Costa at an ESC Congress scientific session on 27 August.
Abbott has announced that its Xience Xpedition Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System received CE mark for the treatment of coronary arterial disease. The company is launching the product immediately in CE mark countries.
Vascular Solutions has announced that it has acquired the Venture wire control catheter, a deflectable-tip catheter used to provide guidewire directional control in challenging coronary and peripheral interventional procedures, from St Jude Medical.
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