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Common Imaging Test Uses AI to Help Identify Heart Valve Disease

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tim.hodson Wed, 04/16/2025 - 14:19 April 16, 2025 An artificial intelligence (AI) program trained to review images from a common medical test can detect early signs of tricuspid heart valve disease and may help doctors diagnose and treat patients sooner, according to research from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. Photo: Getty.

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Lantheus Announces the FDA Approval of DEFINITY as Ultrasound Enhancing Agent for Use in Certain Pediatric Cardiovascular Patients

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Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) has approved DEFINITY (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) as an ultrasound enhancing agent for use in pediatric patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, including those who have undergone heart transplant, or have Kawasaki disease or a congenital cardiovascular anomaly. Lantheus announced that the U.S.

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UltraSight Expands Access to Cardiac Monitoring with AI

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11, 2025 UltraSight, a company committed to enhancing the efficiency and productivity of cardiac ultrasound,recentlyannounced support from Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) for a study that aims to improve access to echocardiographic assessments for patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM). tim.hodson Tue, 02/18/2025 - 16:17 Feb.

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Ultromics Announces Partnership to Expedite Development of Echo AI Algorithm for Early Detection of Cardiac Amyloidosis

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Under the partnership with Pfizer, Ultromics will research and pursue FDA clearance for its EchoGo Amyloidosis algorithm that already has Breakthrough Device Designation as a medical device for the detection of cardiac amyloidosis.

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Signal-to-noise of linear and volume measures of left ventricular and left atrial size

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

When following patients with serial echocardiograms, each new measur. Serial echocardiographic assessments are common in clinical cardiology, e.g., for timing of intervention in mitral and aortic regurgitation.

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This case was provided by Spencer Schwartz, an outstanding paramedic at Hennepin EMS who is on Hennepin EMS's specialized "P3" team, a team that receives extra training in advanced procedures such as RSI, thoracostomy, vasopressors, and prehospital ultrasound. This entire case is not consistent with takotsubo. It can only be seen by IVUS.

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Novel AI Platform Matches Cardiologists in Detecting Rheumatic Heart Disease

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Getty Images milla1cf Tue, 01/16/2024 - 14:11 January 16, 2024 — Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to detect rheumatic heart disease (RHD) with the same accuracy as a cardiologist, according to new research demonstrating how sophisticated deep learning technology can be applied to this disease of inequity.