The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
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 […]
DUBLIN and SAN DIEGO – September 24, 2018 – Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), a global leader in heart valve therapies, today announced new data presented at the 30th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Over the weekend, investigators presented the longest-term data to-date from […]
SAN DIEGO and BUELACH, Switzerland, Sept. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Today, BIOTRONIK announced two-year data from the BIOFLOW-V randomized trial comparing the Orsiroa and Xienceb drug-eluting stents (DES). The data shows statistically improved outcomes for patients treated with Orsiro across a range of clinical endpoints including 24-month target lesion failure (TLF). This pivotal US investigational device exemption trial included […]
KIRKLAND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cardiac Dimensions, a leader in the development of innovative, minimally invasive treatment modalities to address heart failure and related cardiovascular conditions, announced results of the company’s landmark REDUCE FMR clinical trial, which were presented today at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Conference in San Diego. The study met […]
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott (NYSE :ABT ) today announced positive clinical study results from a randomized controlled trial comparing treatment with the MitraClip® device to guideline-directed medical therapy in select patients with secondary (or functional) mitral regurgitation, or a leaky heart valve, as a result of advanced heart failure. The landmark […]
WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Corindus Vascular Robotics, Inc. [NYSE American: CVRS], a leading developer of precision vascular robotics, announced the first live transmission of a remote interventional procedure using the company’s CorPath® platform was performed at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Conference in San Diego, CA on September 22, 2018. The remote interventional […]
