The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the launch of Philips Zenition, its new mobile C-arm imaging platform. Mobile C-arms are X-ray systems that are brought into the operating room (OR) to provide live image guidance during a wide range of surgeries including […]
PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Affluent Medical (Paris:ALAM), a French medtech company specialized in innovative, minimally invasive implants designed to restore key physiological functions for patients suffering from heart and vascular diseases, as well as urinary incontinence, today announces positive results from its SCOPE 1 clinical trial validating the efficacy of KARDIOZIS technology. Results have been […]
DUBLIN – February 7, 2019 – Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) announced today that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval on an expanded indication for its Pipeline(TM) Flex embolization device.1 Previously indicated for the endovascular treatment of adults with large or giant wide-necked intracranial aneurysms (IAs) in the internal carotid […]
Toledo, Ohio, February 5, 2019 – VentureMed Group, Inc., a privately-held medical device company that develops and markets the FLEX Vessel Prep™ System to treat peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and stenoses of arteriovenous (AV) fistulas and grafts, announced today that J. Robert Paulson, Jr., has been appointed president and chief […]
BEAUFORT, S.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new analysis published by THE SAGE GROUP concludes that occlusive thrombus is present in 3.6 million PAD patients. “Occlusive thrombus in the leg arteries has serious consequences including ischemic symptoms, and in severe cases amputation. Furthermore, its presence adversely affects interventional procedure outcomes and costs. Thrombus interferes […]
WAYNE, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Teleflex Incorporated (NYSE: TFX), a leading global provider of medical technologies for critical care and surgery, has announced that it received premarket approval (PMA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the MANTA™ Vascular Closure Device – the first commercially available biomechanical vascular closure device designed specifically […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Cook Medical announced its recent approval from the U.S. FDA for its Zenith Dissection Endovascular System. The system, consisting of a proximal stent-graft component and a distal bare stent component, provides physicians a less invasive alternative to open surgery for repair of Type B dissections of the […]
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and PARIS, Feb. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Sanofi today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for Praluent® (alirocumab) Injection, recommending a new indication to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels as an […]
TEL-AVIV, Israel, Jan. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The Israeli start-up Laminate Medical Technologies, developer of a vascular support device that is implanted in patients requiring dialysis, announces a capital raising round of $12 million. This round brings total investment in the company to date to $24 million. Participating in the current round is the leading dialyzer […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 30, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — XableCath, Inc., announced that its XableCath™ blunt and abrasion tip catheters, were cleared by the FDA as Peripheral Crossing Catheters. The catheters have been safely and successfully used to cross challenging lesions in both arterial CTO’s and chronic obstructive venous lesions. […]
