The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
LISLE, Ill., Aug. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Endotronix, Inc., a digital health and medical technology company dedicated to advancing the treatment of heart failure (HF), today announced it has received conditional Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin the multi-center PROACTIVE-HF trial of the Cordella™ Pulmonary […]
ACTON, Mass., Aug. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Scientists have taken a major step closer to being able to 3D bioprint functional organs, after researchers devised a method of rebuilding components of the human heart, according to a study published in the August 2nd edition of Science. The team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers developed an advanced version […]
LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., July 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — BIOTRONIK today announced the company’s PK Papyrus® covered coronary stent system1 has been named a finalist in the 2019 Prix Galien USA Awards Ceremony for Best Medical Technology. PK Papyrus is used in emergency situations to create a physical barrier to seal life-threatening perforated coronary arteries without the need for invasive surgery. In September […]
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Reflow Medical, Inc. announces that the first patients have been enrolled in its DEEPER OUS clinical trial using the Temporary Spur Stent System. DEEPER OUS is a 100-patient prospective, non-randomized, multicenter trial designed to assess the safety and efficacy of the Temporary Spur Stent System compared to […]
News Release Department of Marketing and Communications 11100 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106 Northeast Ohio Man Survives Extreme Cardiac Event, Receives 30+ Defibrillations UH Geauga Medical Center team shows perseverance and expertise in incredible effort A Northeast Ohio man who experienced what likely would have been a deadly […]
AWANS, Belgium–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Miracor Medical SA (Miracor Medical) today announced the initiation and first patient enrollment in the PICSO-AMI-I study to evaluate the benefits of PiCSO® therapy compared with conventional PCI for the treatment of anterior STEMI patients. The first patient enrolled into this study was treated at Oxford Heart Center, Oxford, […]
RARITAN, N.J., July 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a global leader of in vitro diagnostics, announced the CE Mark of an enhanced version of its VITROS® NT-proBNP II assay, part of Ortho’s expansive cardiac menu. The analytical characteristics and clinical performance of the VITROS NT-proBNP II assay allow clinicians to efficiently assess […]
TIANJIN, China, July 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — In a significant milestone toward obtaining key regulatory approvals for the BuMA Supreme Drug-Eluting Stent (DES) System, SINOMED has completed enrollment in the PIONEER III randomized, controlled clinical trial. The PIONEER III trial is designed to assess the safety and effectiveness of the BuMA Supreme […]
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MyoKardia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MYOK) today announced updates related to its hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) treatment portfolio, including lead therapeutic candidate, mavacamten. Patient screening has closed for the Phase 3 EXPLORER-HCM registrational clinical study to assess the effect of mavacamten in treating […]
OAKLAND, Calif., July 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Both numbers in a blood pressure reading — the “upper” systolic and the “lower” diastolic — independently predicted the risk of heart attack or stroke in a very large Kaiser Permanente study that included more than 36 million blood pressure readings from more than 1 […]
