CLEVELAND — Forty-one-year-old Mark Kader is a husband, father of five, registered nurse, and associate clinical consultant for Abiomed, a medical device company. He's passionate about educating ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA—Two large observational studies are casting doubt on how well newer forms of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) are performing in real-world practice in the United States. The ...

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for Impella RP to include patients suffering from COVID-19 related ...

The FDA typically requires post-approval studies for medical devices that receive a PMA, the FDA’s highest level of regulatory approval. FDA post-approval studies use high-quality prospective data to ...

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Data from more than 1,000 patients presented during the virtual 2020 Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) Scientific Sessions demonstrates ...

Several studies show that the use of percutaneous ventricular assist devices (PVADs), including Impella, is particularly cost-effective in cases of cardiogenic shock: Several studies, including ...

Compared with no added support, use of the Impella percutaneous left ventricular assist device (Abiomed) in patients undergoing high-risk nonemergent PCI is associated with more periprocedural MI ...

There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump's ...

PHILADELPHIA (KFSN) -- When a patient has a heart attack, doctors are working against the clock. Often their heart is too weak to pump enough blood. Cardiologists in major U.S. medical centers are ...

Use of a microaxial flow pump (Impella CP) with standard care led to a lower risk for death than standard care alone in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-related cardiogenic ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. - For 38 years, Ron Rovito has been a fixture in New York high school football, but the physical activity wasn't enough to prevent heart disease. Rovito had his first heart attack in ...