Coronary/Structural Heart

Medinol Ltd. Receives CE Mark for the EluNIR™ Ridaforolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System, and announces first commercial implantations

Medinol, a global Interventional Cardiology device company, announced that it obtained CE-mark for EluNIR™, its novel Drug Eluting Stent featuring a unique stent design with low metal footprint and a proprietary elastomeric coating, both designed to optimize clinical outcomes. EluNIR demonstrated outstanding outcomes in two randomized pivotal studies. In BIONICS, a more-comers […]

ACIST Medical Systems Announces Approval and Launch of Next-Generation FFR System

DENVER & EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ACIST Medical Systems, Inc., a Bracco Group Company, today announced the global launch of its ACIST RXi® Mini™ System, the next generation system of its RXi Rapid Exchange FFR System. The RXi Mini System will debut at the 29th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium […]

Novoheart Strengthens North American Presence Opening New R&D Location at the World-class Cove Facility, UC Irvine, California

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA — (Marketwired) — Oct 25, 2017 — Novoheart (“Novoheart” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE: NVH), a global stem cell biotechnology company, is pleased to announce that it has opened a new US location in The Cove at UC Irvine, California. The Cove is home to UCI Applied Innovation – a public-private […]

ROX Medical Announces Sustained Improvements in Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension Treated With the ROX Coupler

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Oct. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Rox Medical Inc., a privately held medical device company pioneering an innovative interventional vascular therapy for uncontrolled hypertension, announced the publication of 12-month outcomes of the ROX CONTROL HTN study in the prestigious journal, Hypertension. CONTROL HTN is a multi-center randomized controlled trial that […]

CorInnova Awarded Seminal Patent for Minimally Invasively-Delivered Soft Robotic Heart Device to Support Heart Function

HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 26, 2017– CorInnova Inc., an emerging medical device company developing novel technology for the treatment of Heart Failure, announced today three milestone events: (1) the Company has received notice of allowance of a seminal patent to protect its intellectual property associated with the world’s first minimally invasively-delivered soft robotic […]

CeloNova’s COBRA PzF NanoCoated Coronary Stent Being Studied with 14-day DAPT in High Bleeding Risk Patien

SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — CeloNova BioSciences, a global medical device company that offers a family of innovative products based upon its proprietary Polyzene™-F nanocoating technology, today announced that the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved expansion of CeloNova’s ongoing clinical trial of its proprietary COBRA PzF™ NanoCoated Coronary […]

New Study Shows Women and Minorities at Greater Risk for Post Stent Restenosis and MACE

A new study has found females and minorities have a greater risk of restenosis and subsequent MACE than “white” men after receiving everolimus-eluting stent implantation. The Study Setup A cohort study that pulled thousands of patients from both the PLATINUM Diversity and PROMUS Element Plus Post-Approval looked at groups of men, women […]

AI-Driven Cardiac Ultrasound Company Bay Labs Announces Two Presentations at TCT2017

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bay Labs, a medical technology company at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence to cardiovascular imaging, today announced that Emeritus Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory University School of Medicine and the company’s Chief Medical Officer Randolph P. Martin, M.D. FACC, FASE, has been invited to be a […]

Baylis Medical’s Kris Shah appointed to AdvaMed Accel Board of Directors

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Baylis Medical Company, a leading developer, manufacturer, and supplier of state-of-the-art interventional cardiology products, has announced that President and co-Founder Kris Shah has been named to the Advanced Medical Technology Association’s (AdvaMed) Accel Board of Directors. “I am honoured to be appointed to the AdvaMed Accel Board and look forward to […]

CathWorks Announces FAST-FFR Pivotal Clinical Trial

KFAR SABA, Israel, Oct. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Cathworks, a leader in the development of non-invasive Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) measurements for guiding coronary interventions, announced today that the first patient has been enrolled in the FAST-FFR (FFRangio Accuracy vs. STandard FFR) clinical trial. This global pivotal trial is designed to assess the efficacy […]