The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
INDIANAPOLIS, July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Cook Regentec announced today the first clinical use in the United Statesof the Advance CS Coronary Sinus Infusion Catheter and Compass® CT Disposable Pressure Transducer to deliver a therapeutic in heart failure patients. The Advance CS Coronary Sinus Infusion Catheter is a percutaneous balloon infusion catheter designed […]
BERLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–OMEICOS Therapeutics, a Berlin-based biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class small molecule therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and ophthalmic diseases, today announced results from its first-in-human clinical study for OMT-28. The study met its primary goal with OMT-28 exhibiting an excellent tolerability profile and showing no safety signals […]
NEW YORK and MELBOURNE, Australia, July 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mesoblast Limited (Nasdaq:MESO) (ASX:MSB) today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with one of China’s largest pharmaceutical companies, Tasly Pharmaceutical Group (SHA: 600535; Tasly), for the development, manufacture and commercialization in China of Mesoblast’s allogeneic mesenchymal precursor cell […]
Lausanne, Switzerland and Palo Alto, USA, July 17, 2018 / B3C newswire / — Polares Medical SA, a preclinical stage medical technology company focused on the development of a unique trans-catheter mitral valve hemi-replacement system to treat patients suffering from mitral regurgitation (MR), announced today the closing of a $25 million […]
SAN DIEGO, July 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — REVA Medical, Inc. (ASX:RVA) (“REVA” or the “Company”), a leader in bioresorbable polymer technologies for vascular applications, is expanding commercial access to the Fantom® Bioresorbable Scaffold with a new distribution partnership in Italy. REVA will work with Bio Vascular Group S.R.L. (“Bio Vascular”) […]
KFAR-SABA, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CathWorks announced the approval of a new CPT code 0523T for non-invasive, 3D FFRangio™ enabled interpretation of possible atherosclerotic stenosis during coronary angiography interventions. The code issuance is a major step forward in helping physicians objectively and cost-effectively determine if PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention) is indicated and revascularization […]
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., July 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a next-generation version of its leading MitraClip® heart valve repair device used to repair a leaky mitral valve without open-heart surgery. The transcatheter clip-based therapy, now on a third generation […]
IRVINE, Calif., July 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hancock Jaffe Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq:HJLI) (Nasdaq:HJLIW), a company specializing in bioprosthetic medical devices to establish improved standards of care for treating cardiac and vascular diseases, today announced that it has initiated an analysis of its bioprosthetic heart valve in order to determine […]
FRANKFURT, Germany, July 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Prof. Dr. Achille Gaspardone, Director of Cardiology at Hospital of Sant’ Eugenio (Rome, Italy), and Prof. Dr. Horst Sievert MD, Director and Founder of Cardio Vascular Center (Frankfurt Germany), presented a LIVE PFO Closure to attendees of the Transcatheter Valve Therapies (TVT) Congress in Chicago, IL. The case was transmitted via […]
CLEARWATER, Fla., July 2, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On June 28, doctors at Morton Plant Hospital became the first in Florida to treat a patient in the APOLLO Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR) Pivotal Trial. TMVR is a minimally invasive potential alternative to conventional open-heart mitral-valve surgery for patients with severe mitral valve regurgitation. Mitral valve regurgitation […]
