- Medtronic Combines Vascular and Cardiac Surgery Businesses.
New CardioVascular Business Assembles Full Spectrum of Surgical and Minimally Invasive Products for Cardiovascular Disease MINNEAPOLIS -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced the formation of Medtronic CardioVascular, a new, global business combining Medtronic's existing Vascular and Cardiac Surgery businesses. The new CardioVascular business at Medtronic will bring together people, technology ......
- NMMC sees more than 1,000 heart surgeries annually
TUPELO - In 2003, North Mississippi Medical Center (NMMC), the nation's largest rural hospital, marked a milestone by performing more than 1,000 heart bypass and valve surgeries that year alone. "The number of cases we've done is remarkable. especially considering that the hospital's first 1,000 heart surgeries spanned a period ......
- Emerging treatment for fibrillation arrives here
Dr. Gerhard Muelheims, a cardiac electrophysiologist who joined Spokane Cardiology PS last month, soon will begin performing here an emerging catheter-based procedure for treating sufferers of atrial fibrillation, a potentially dangerous form of irregular heartbeat. Because it's still being perfected, the procedure, called atrial fibrillation ablation; can be performed only ......
- Edwards Lifesciences to partner with PLC Medical
Systems on cardiac arrythmia treatment.
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (Irvine, CA), a global leader in medical technologies to treat advanced cardiovascular disease, and the world's number-one heart valve company, announced that it has entered into an alliance with PLC Medical Systems, Inc. to commercialize products for the surgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Under the exclusive, multi-year ......
- Colorado Springs Medical Briefs, March 31, 2006
<p>Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has launched Southern Colorado's first Atrial Fibrillation Center. The center will provide diagnosis, medication, ablation, implantation, surgery and patient follow-up. Atrial fibrillation is characterized by an irregular heart rhythm in which abnormal electrical signals are generated through the upper chambers of the heart. It often accompanies ......
- Colorado Springs Medical Briefs, March 31, 2006
<p>Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has launched Southern Colorado's first Atrial Fibrillation Center. The center will provide diagnosis, medication, ablation, implantation, surgery and patient follow-up. Atrial fibrillation is characterized by an irregular heart rhythm in which abnormal electrical signals are generated through the upper chambers of the heart. It often accompanies ......
- Pushing Aside an Industry Standard
HEADNOTE The Medicines Company's blood thinner Angiomax is fast replacing heparin as the drug of choice for patients undergoing cardiac procedures The Medicines Company has an ambitious goal: It wants to cut the world of invasive cardiac surgery and interventions free from one of its pharmacological moorings. The blood thinner ......