Author: Ken Dropiewski

LivaNova (LIVN)’s Perceval Sutureless Aortic Heart Valve Awarded New Technology Add-On Payment From The Center For Medicare And Medicaid Services

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN) (“LivaNova” or the “Company”), a market-leading medical technology company, today announced its Perceval® sutureless aortic heart valve received approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for a New Technology Add-on Payment (NTAP). The Perceval valve met the CMS criteria for NTAP, including the demonstration […]

InspireMD Announces Publication Of An Independent Clinical Review Authored By Leading U.S. And European Physicians Supporting Safety Advantages Of Mesh-Covered Carotid Stents

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL–(Marketwired – August 07, 2017) – InspireMD, Inc. (NYSE American: NSPR) (NYSE MKT: NSPR) (NYSE American: NSPR.WS) (NYSE MKT: NSPR.WS) (“InspireMD” or the “Company”), a leader in embolic prevention systems (EPS) / thrombus management technologies and neurovascular devices, today announced the publication of the independent study entitled, “One swallow does not a […]

InspireMD’s Cguard Carotid Embolic Prevention System Featured At The SOLACI CACI Congress Of Cardiology 2017 In Buenos Aires

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL–(Marketwired – August 03, 2017) – InspireMD, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NSPR) (NYSE MKT: NSPR.WS) (“InspireMD” or the “Company”), a leader in embolic prevention systems (EPS) / thrombus management technologies and neurovascular devices, today announced that an endovascular interventional procedure featuring the CGuard™ EPS performed by the team of Dr. Anibal Damonte, Interventional […]

RTI Surgical® Divests Cardiothoracic Closure Business to A&E Medical Corporation for up to $60 Million

ALACHUA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–RTI Surgical Inc. (RTI) (Nasdaq: RTIX), a global surgical implant company, today announced that it has sold its cardiothoracic closure business to A&E Advanced Closure Systems, LLC (A&E Medical), a leading cardiovascular medical device OEM and a portfolio company of Vance Street Capital LLC, for $54 million in cash […]

Boston Scientific’s Distribution Option Lapses

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — REVA Medical, Inc. (ASX:RVA) (“REVA” or the “Company”) announces the expiration of Boston Scientific Corporation’s (“BSC”) exclusive right to negotiate for distribution of REVA’s coronary and peripheral bioresorbable scaffolds. BSC’s right to negotiate was available under a 2007 agreement that would have […]

University of Maryland Medicine Establishes Nation’s First Center For Cardiac Xenotransplantation Research With $24 Million Grant And Addition Of Top Transplant Surgeon-Scientists

BALTIMORE, Aug. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ —Stephen Bartlett, MD, chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and UM SOMDean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, announced today that a recent $24 million grant from United Therapeutics Corporation will establish the first and only center for cardiac xenotransplantation research in the […]

SHS invests in innovative heart valve-repair start-up CoreMedic

Tuebingen, 27. July 2017. SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement is investing in CoreMedic, a start-up developing innovative, transfemoral repair systems to treat heart valve malfunctions. SHS is investing from its fourth fund generation to finance CoreMedic’s further growth and the clinical application of its innovative products. Mitral heart valve regurgitation (MR) […]

4C Medical’s Novel Mitral Regurgitation Therapy Highlighted at CVI 2017 Innovation Summit

NEWS PROVIDED BY 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. 07:04 ET BROOKLYN PARK, Minn., Aug. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. (4C Medical), a developer of minimally invasive therapies for structural heart disease, today announced that its medical device therapy for mitral regurgitation (MR) was featured in the Innovation Summit at Cardiovascular Innovations (CVI) 2017 […]