The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn., Sept. 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NeoChord, Inc., a privately-held medical technology company leading the advancement of beating heart mitral valve repair in patients suffering from mitral valve regurgitation, today announced that it has successfully treated the first patients in Asia using the NeoChord procedure at Queen […]
SHANGHAI, Sept. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — MicroPort Scientific Corporation (“MicroPort®”, HK:0853) announced today that the clinical trial results for its Firehawk® Rapamycin Target Eluting Coronary Stent System (“Firehawk®”) which conducted a multi-center, randomized controlled trial called TARGET AC has been published online in The Lancet, a world leading medical journal currently ranked second […]
GORDON, Australia, Aug. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The American offshoot of Australian biotech Noxopharm, Nyrada, believes it is within reach of achieving a major advance in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. It has made important progress with a drug candidate known as NYX-330 that Nyrada believes may be the next breakthrough medication for […]
KFAR-SABA, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CathWorks announced that the FAST-FFR pivotal trial has been added to the late-breaking clinical science program during the 2018 TCT (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics) annual meeting in San Diego. FAST-FFR trial data will be presented in the Main Arena during the late-breaking science session that begins at 12 noon […]
AUSTIN, Texas, August 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – XBiotech Inc. (NASDAQ: XBIT) today announced the release of results indicating that leukocyte-derived Interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1⍺) is the cause clots that can cause a heart attack or stroke. The research was led by a world-renowned cardiovascular researcher, Dr. Peter Libby, Professor Mallinckrodt of […]
AMSTERDAM and MUNICH, Aug. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Royal Philips (NYSE : PHG , AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced that the European Society of Cardiology has incorporated instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) into its updated revascularization guidelines. The new guidelines have provided the highest recommendation (class I A) for iFR alongside fractional flow reserve (FFR) […]
MUNICH, Aug. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced the results of the Phase 3 MARINER and COMMANDER HF (heart failure) studies, which were presented this week at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2018 and simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine. In both studies, there was no […]
MUNICH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Late-breaking data published and presented today confirm that the non-invasive HeartFlow®FFRct Analysis enables physicians to effectively differentiate patients in need of coronary stenting or bypass surgery from those who can be managed with medications alone. The ADVANCE Registry was published in the European Heart Journal (EHJ) and the Aarhus University Hospital […]
MUNICH, Aug. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Corvia Medical, Inc., a privately-held company with a first-in-class structural heart device to treat heart failure, today announced one-year follow-up data from the REDUCE LAP-HF I clinical study of its Interatrial Shunt Device (IASD®). The IASD is the world’s first transcatheter device for heart failure with preserved […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, collaborated with Duke Clinical Research Institute to develop an atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) Risk Calculator app, designed as a tool to increase communication between the person and their doctor about ways to live […]
