ATLANTA, GA — Despite promise for improving heart failure (HF) in pilot studies, an interatrial shunt (IAS) device did not meet the primary composite efficacy endpoint in a pivotal trial, a result ...

ATLANTA -- An interatrial shunt failed to provide a clinical benefit to people with heart failure (HF) overall in the RELIEVE-HF trial, though actual harm or benefit seemed to hinge on the patient's ...

PHOENIX -- The functional and quality-of-life benefits of creating a left-to-right shunt in the interatrial septum to offload failing hearts held up over the midterm in a series of small feasibility ...

BOSTON, MA—This week’s Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics (THT) 2023 meeting featured more than a dozen talks on interatrial shunts to reduce left atrial pressures and volume overload in heart ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) can arise from a range of genetic and physiological triggers, but the common denominator—elevated left atrial (LA) pressure—has spawned a host of ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code and New Technology Ambulatory Payment ...

Transcatheter implants designed to alleviate high left atrial (LA) pressures — which, as a possible way to treat heart failure (HF) once seemed like a long shot — are emerging as new stars of heart ...

Madison Scientific, a Chicago-based startup developing a SmartShunt device, has raised $7 million in seed funding. The private medical device company said in a press release today that funding was ...

ATLANTA, GA (May 20, 2022) – Results from early clinical evaluation of the Alleviant System to treat heart failure patients with preserved and reduced ejection fraction (HFpEF and HFrEF) was presented ...