Coronary/Structural Heart

CeloNova Announces Positive Clinical Results of eCOBRA Study at EuroPCR 2018

SAN ANTONIO, May 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — CeloNova BioSciences, Inc. (CeloNova), a global medical device company that offers a family of innovative products based upon its proprietary Polyzene™-F nanocoating technology, today announced 1-year clinical trial results from the eCOBRA post-market study of the company’s COBRA PzF™ NanoCoated Coronary Stent (NCS) System. The clinical trial […]

PiCSO therapy reduces infarct size in STEMI patients.

AWANS, Belgium, May 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Miracor Medical SA announced today the clinical results from the physician-sponsored OxAMI-PiCSO study were published in the EuroIntervention journal and presented at the Hotline session of the EuroPCR conference by Dr. Giovanni Luigi De Maria, MD, the Heart Centre, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK. The latest results, obtained with the PiCSO® Impulse System, contribute to the […]

QT Vascular Enters Into Asset Purchase And Option Agreement With Teleflex

SINGAPORE, May 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — QT Vascular Ltd., (“QT Vascular“, and with its subsidiaries, the “Company“), announced today that it has entered into an asset purchase and option agreement (the “APOA“) with Teleflex Life Sciences Unlimited Company and Teleflex Incorporated (“Teleflex“). Under the APOA, Teleflex will acquire the non-drug coated product line […]

Venus Medtech’s strategic investment in Keystone Heart deepens the technical layout of cerebral embolic protection market

HANGZHOU, China, May 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — China Venus Medtech (Hangzhou) Inc. announced a partnership agreement for strategic investment and authorization with Keystone Heart. This agreement will grant Venus Medtech the right to exclusively develop, manufacture and sell the 3rd generation TriGUARD 3™ device and the next generation of cerebral embolic protection device in China and […]

New Medtronic Data Show Significant Blood Pressure Lowering Effect of Renal Denervation in Patients Taking Anti-Hypertensive Medication

DUBLIN and PARIS – May 23, 2018 – Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) today announced first-ever-data from the SPYRAL HTN-ON MED Study. Initial study results found statistically significant and clinically important blood pressure reductions in hypertensive patients prescribed anti-hypertension medications treated with the Symplicity Spyral renal denervation (RDN) system with no major adverse […]

Fantom’s Positive Two-Year Results Show Sustained Safety and Efficacy

SAN DIEGO, May 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — REVA Medical, Inc. (ASX:RVA) (“REVA” or the “Company”), a leader in bioresorbable polymer technologies for vascular applications, reported sustained safety and efficacy of the Fantom®bioresorbable scaffold (“BRS”) through two years based on data from the FANTOM II trial presented today at the […]

Berlin Cures Announces Formation of Scientific Advisory Board

ZUG, Switzerland, May 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Drug developer Berlin Cures today announced the formation of a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and the appointment of its first two members, Prof. Beda M. Stadler and Prof. Wilhelm Vetter, to help advance the clinical development of BC 007, the first drug designed to target the autoimmune cause of heart failure as […]

Amaranth Presented Interim Nine-Month Follow-up MAGNITUDE (98 micron) and Two-Year Follow-up APTITUDE (115 micron) Data at EuroPCR Symposium

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA , May 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amaranth Medical, a medical device company developing next-generation bioresorbable scaffolds for the interventional cardiology market, provided an update on the company’s sirolimus-eluting bioresorbable scaffold (BRS) products during a satellite symposium during EuroPCR 2018, the annual meeting of the European Association of […]

Abbott’s Investigational Tendyne™ Device for Mitral Valve Replacement Demonstrates Positive Outcomes at 30 Days in Global Study

PARIS, May 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced favorable outcomes from the first 100 patients treated in a global study of its Tendyne Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR) system, the first and only mitral replacement valve that is repositionable and fully retrievable to allow for more precise implantation, helping improve […]

Newest Generation of Leading Heart Stent is Now Approved in the U.S. for People with Coronary Artery Disease

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., May 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for XIENCE SierraTM, the newest generation of the company’s gold-standard XIENCE everolimus-eluting coronary stent system. XIENCE stents are among the world’s most-used and studied stents and have an exceptional safety […]