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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.

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Henry Ford Health Heart Failure Patient First in Michigan to Receive Breakthrough Device

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Henry Ford Health's Center for Structural Heart Disease team delivered its first in Michigan FDA-approved VOQUE Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement System to a heart failure patient on February 13, 2024 at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. However, only about 8,000 tricuspid valve surgeries are performed annually.

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A Look at February's Top 10

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Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD, Named President of the Heart Valve Society 2. Henry Ford Health Heart Failure Patient First in Michigan to Receive Breakthrough Device 6. Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute is First in Minnesota to Implant Barostim Therapy to Improve Symptoms of Heart Failure 7.

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Smidt Heart Institute Experts Selected to Join JACC Editorial Team

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Kittleson, director of Heart Failure Research and director of Post Graduate Medical Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation, is an associate editor specializing in heart failure. Levine Early Career Clinical Investigator Award from the American Heart Association.

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Columbia Cardiology Launches New Mitral & Tricuspid Center

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Tricuspid and mitral valves are debilitating conditions that can lead to arrhythmias, hypertension, and heart failure. Until recently, therapeutic options for people with tricuspid and mitral valve disorders have been limited to symptom relief or high-risk surgery.

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New Treatment Options Available for Patients with Tricuspid Valve Disease

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In tricuspid valve regurgitation, a complex condition that Cedars-Sinai experts regularly treat, the valve between two heart chambers on the right side doesn't open or close properly. How has treatment for tricuspid valve disease evolved? Image by Getty. tim.hodson Tue, 02/18/2025 - 10:08 Feb.

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New Drug Fails to Improve Diabetes-Related Heart Failure

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The research was presented at the American College of Cardiology ’s Annual Scientific Session. The research was presented at the American College of Cardiology ’s Annual Scientific Session. Decline in exercise ability is a hallmark of progression to overt heart failure.