The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
NEW YORK and MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB, Nasdaq:MESO) today announced that Mesoblast’s proprietary allogeneic mesenchymal precursor cell (MPC) heart failure product candidate MPC-150-IM for use in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) was featured at the First Cardiac Regenerative Symposium for Congenital Heart Disease […]
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Orchestra BioMed, Inc. (“Orchestra BioMed” or the “Company”), a biomedical innovation company developing transformational therapeutic devices targeting major medical conditions, presented positive 2-year clinical results from its multicenter clinical trial for BackBeat® Cardiac Neuromodulation Therapy (CNT) at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2018 in San […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Based on its recent analysis of the North American heart-on-a-chip market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes TARA Biosystems with the 2018 North American Technology Innovation Award for its trailblazing Biowire™ II heart-on-a-chip platform. This solution produces mature, engineered, human cardiac tissues and demonstrates promise as a valuable […]
BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Infraredx, Inc., a pioneer in intravascular imaging for mapping coronary artery disease, presented late-breaking clinical trial results for its landmark Lipid-Rich Plaque (LRP) Study today at the 30th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause […]
HANGZHOU, China, CAESAREA, Israel, TAMPA, Florida — September 25, 2018— Venus Medtech (Hangzhou) Inc., the preeminent Chinese transcatheter heart valve company, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Keystone Heart Ltd., a privately-held medical device company and makers of TriGUARD 3™. The acquisition gives Venus Medtech international rights to […]
OR YEHUDA, Israel, Sept. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Cardiovalve announced today that it has commenced the AHEAD USmulticenter study (U.S. Early Feasibility Study of High Surgical Risk Patients with Severe Mitral Regurgitation Treated with the Cardiovalve Transfemoral Mitral Valve System). AHEAD US trial recruitment will start in early Q4 2018. The primary endpoint of the […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ancora Heart, Inc., a company developing a novel therapy to address heart failure, today announced positive clinical data from the company’s recently expanded U.S. early feasibility study evaluating the safety of the investigational AccuCinch® Ventricular Repair System designed for the treatment of heart failure and functional mitral regurgitation […]
BEDMINSTER, N.J. and DUBLIN, Ireland, Sept. 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amarin Corporation plc (NASDAQ:AMRN), announced today topline results from the Vascepa® cardiovascular (CV) outcomes trial, REDUCE-IT™, a global study of 8,179 statin-treated adults with elevated CV risk. REDUCE-IT met its primary endpoint demonstrating an approximately 25% relative risk reduction, to […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA , Sept. 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amaranth Medical, a medical device company developing next-generation bioresorbable scaffolds, provided an update on the company’s sirolimus-eluting bioresorbable scaffold (BRS) products at the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting during the following sessions: Didactic Session: Drug-Eluting Stents, Bioresorbable Scaffolds, and Coronary […]
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A new analysis of data from Abiomed’s (NASDAQ:ABMD) Impella® Quality (IQ) Database shows a relative increase of 24% in mean survival in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) cardiogenic shock patients since Impella’s cardiogenic shock FDA post-market approval. Part of the reason for the increase was a […]
