Chicago-based Endotronix, which makes devices to manage heart failure and remotely monitor cardiac patients, has raised $32 million in new funding. Investors included BioVentures, SV Life Sciences, ...

Experts note that implantable loop recorders are valuable for detecting infrequent arrhythmias and guiding anticoagulation decisions post-cryptogenic stroke or atrial fibrillation ablation, but due to ...

Introduction: Management of congestive heart failure is a serious public health problem. The use of implantable hemodynamic monitors (IHMs) may assist in this management by providing continuous ...

July 14--A device a fraction of an inch long is providing George Saenz with a peace of mind he has never had before. Three weeks ago, the 67-year-old independent insurance agent had the Medtronic ...

The FDA has cleared Abbott’s Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor (ICM), an implantable device that continuously tracks patients’ heart rhythms and sends the data to a smartphone app via Bluetooth.

Edwards Lifesciences is dropping about $1.6 billion on a pair of acquisitions to bolster its structural heart portfolio. They comprise JenaValve Technology, which is developing a transcatheter valve ...

December 8, 2011 (Gaithersburg, Maryland) — An FDA advisory panel collectively decided a tiny pulmonary-artery (PA) pressure monitor for patients with heart failure (HF) isn't ready for prime time.

When children with heart failure await transplants, they typically stay at the hospital for months to years, tethered to a bulky blood-pumping device. But an implantable heart pump could allow them to ...

The folks at Abbott received FDA clearance for the Confirm Rx implantable cardiac monitoring device that wirelessly connects to the patient’s smartphone. Cardiac recordings pass from the device to the ...

In patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and a prior HF hospitalization or elevated natriuretic peptides, implantable hemodynamic monitoring (IHM) devices can ...

The EU-funded project IV-Lab aims to develop a multi-sensing device that can be implanted into blood vessels, such as peripheral veins or arteries, to monitor various body parameters and the overall ...