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 […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cook Medical announced that a new 5 mm diameter version of Zilver® PTX® was approved by the FDA. It is the first 5 mm drug-eluting stent in the U.S. with lengths available up to 140 mm that is indicated to treat vessels as small as 4mm in diameter. The range […]
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 […]
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MyoKardia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MYOK), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering precision medicine for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, today announced that Tassos Gianakakos, Chief Executive Officer, will present at the 2018 Cantor Global Healthcare Conference on Monday, October 1, 2018, at 10:05 a.m. […]
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — InspireMD, Inc. (NYSE American: NSPR), developer of the CGuard™ Embolic Prevention System (EPS) for the prevention of stroke caused by the treatment of carotid artery disease, today announced that its novel CGuard™ Embolic Prevention System (EPS) has been granted regulatory approval […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Novoheart (“Novoheart” or the “Company”) (TSXV: NVH; FWB: 3NH), a global stem cell biotechnology company, announced today that it has appointed Bernard Fermini, Ph.D.as Chief Research & Development Officer. Dr. Fermini has been a leading figure and expert in cardiac safety pharmacology for […]
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hancock Jaffe Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq: HJLI, HJLIW), a company specializing in medical devices that restore cardiac and vascular health, announced today that it has completed and submitted its application to INVIMA (the Colombian equivalent of the US FDA) for approval of its […]
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 […]
