In Global News: Hurricanes and Heart Health, an Adult Drug for Pediatric PAH, and a Pen for Evaluating Excised Tumors [1]
Patient Care
Natural disasters, such as hurricanes and earthquakes, disrupt many aspects of daily life. How do medical teams respond to the disruption of cardiac care [3]?
Pediatric surgeons at Jehangir Hospital in Pune, India, removed a pleuropulmonary blastoma type-II tumor from a toddler [4].
Drugs and Devices
The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new, lower dose of the endothelin receptor antagonist bosentan for congenital pulmonary arterial hypertension in pediatric patients [5].
NaviGate reported the investigational implantation of its size-52 mm Gate tricuspid atrioventricular valved stent into a patient’s transplanted heart [6] at the University of Padua, Italy.
Research, Trials, and Funding
Researchers in Texas, USA, have developed a handheld mass spectrometry “pen” [7] for rapid, nondestructive, intraoperative diagnosis of cancer tissues.
Protembis reported the first in-human use, as part of a European trial, of its next generation cerebral-focused embolic protection device [8], the ProtEmboTM System, at Galway University Hospital in Ireland.