Coronary/Structural Heart

Zenosense, Inc.: Update on MIDS Medical Test Strip Development

VALENCIA, SPAIN, March 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NEWMEDIAWIRE — Zenosense, Inc. (OTCQB: ZENO, “Zenosense”, the “Company”), a healthcare technology company focused on the development and commercialization of the MIDS Cardiac™ hand-held technology for the early detection of heart attack at the Point of Care, is pleased to announce an […]

Itamar Medical Advances Simple, Accurate and Reliable Home Sleep Apnea Testing with Launch of WatchPAT™ 300

CAESAREA, Israel, March 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Itamar Medical Ltd. (Nasdaq & TASE: ITMR), a company that develops, manufactures and markets non-invasive diagnostic medical devices for sleep apnea with a focus on the cardiology market, today announced the launch of WatchPAT 300, the next generation WatchPAT system for home sleep […]

Quantum Genomics Announces Positive Results from New Preclinical Studies on Firibastat

PARIS and NEW YORK, March 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Quantum Genomics (Euronext Growth – FR0011648971 – ALQGC), a biopharmaceutical company announces positive results from preclinical reproductive toxicity studies conducted in rats and rabbits with firibastat, a first-in-class cerebral aminopeptidase A inhibitor (BAPAI, Brain Aminopeptidase A Inhibitor). The results of these preclinical […]

Hoag Clinical Trial Contributes to ‘Eye-Popping’ National Heart Surgery Data

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The Jeffrey M. Carlton Heart & Vascular Institute at Hoag, the largest volume cardiovascular program in Orange County, was the first hospital to bring transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) to the community. Today, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) released data from two trials showing […]

Impella RP Post-Approval Study Data Presented at ACC 2019

March 18, 2019 07:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time NEW ORLEANS, La.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Abiomed (NASDAQ:ABMD), a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technologies and the maker of the Impella RP heart pump, announces that survival data from the 18 month post-approval study of 42 Impella RP patients was presented at the American College of Cardiology’s […]

FDA approves new indication for valve repair device to treat certain heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation

SILVER SPRING, Md., March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new indication for a heart valve repair device that is intended to reduce moderate-to-severe or severe mitral regurgitation, a leakage of blood backward through the mitral valve into the heart’s left atrium that can cause […]

ABBOTT RECEIVES FDA APPROVAL FOR EXPANDED INDICATION FOR MITRACLIP™ DEVICE

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a new, expanded indication to its leading MitraClip™ device used to repair a leaky mitral valve without open-heart surgery. Supported by the results of the landmark COAPT™ Trial, […]

eMurmur Announces Launch of Its eMurmur Heartpedia App

OTTAWA, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)–eMurmur today announced the release of eMurmur Heartpedia, an app designed to help patients, parents and medical professionals better understand heart defects through anatomically-correct 3D models and corresponding heart and murmur sound recordings for each defect. eMurmur Heartpedia is a major upgrade to the original Heartpedia app from […]

Level Ex® Turns the Practice of Cardiology into a Video Game with Launch of Cardio ExTM

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Level Ex, creators of industry-leading medical video games for physicians, today announced its expansion into cardiology with the launch of Cardio Ex. Their fourth specialty game, available free in the App Store, presents interventional cardiologists with adrenaline-pumping scenarios that push their cognitive, spatial-reasoning, and decision-making skills to the limits—preparing […]

Conavi Medical Announces Health Canada Approval of Novasight Hybrid System for Visualization During Coronary Angioplasty Procedures

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Conavi Medical Inc. (www.conavi.com) is pleased to announce that it has received a Health Canada Medical Device License for the Novasight HybridTM System. This patented technology is the only clinical system that enables simultaneous imaging of coronary arteries with both intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), and was […]