The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
KIRKLAND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Prevencio, Inc., today announces its HARTTM AS multi-protein, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven test, which data indicates accurately diagnoses Aortic Stenosis (AS)—a condition with a 50 percent death rate when left untreated. AS is the most common valvular heart disease in the Western world, present in more than 20 percent of […]
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–EBR Systems, Inc., developer of the world’s only wireless cardiac pacing system for heart failure, today announced enrollment of the first patients in the global SOLVE-CRT (Stimulation of the Left Ventricular Endocardium for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy) clinical trial. The first patients were enrolled by Prof. Dr. Christian Butter […]
KIRKLAND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cardiac Insight, Inc., a leading U.S. developer of wearable medical devices and diagnostic software, announced today the company will showcase its one-of-a-kind cardiac devices and software systems, featuring proprietary algorithms, for the first time at a major cardiology exposition at the annual American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 67th Annual […]
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., March 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Masters HP™ 15mm rotatable mechanical heart valve, the world’s smallest mechanical heart valve, that will allow doctors to treat babies and toddlers in need of a mitral or aortic valve replacement. Until […]
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn., March 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. (4C Medical), a developer of minimally invasive technologies for structural heart disease, today announced that AltaValve™, its medical device for mitral regurgitation (MR), was awarded first place in the Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) competition held March 3-6, 2018 in Washington, DC. “AltaValve will answer […]
SILVER SPRING, Md., March 6, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approval of a heart valve to include a size small enough to be used in newborn pediatric patients to treat heart defects. Specifically, the agency approved the Masters Series Mechanical Heart Valve with […]
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– HeartFlow, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a collaborative research agreement with Imperial College London. The collaboration will enable experts from HeartFlow and Imperial to work side-by-side on joint projects in the areas of medical imaging and deep learning. The company’s non-invasive HeartFlow® FFRct Analysis leverages deep […]
ST. PAUL, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI®) (NASDAQ: CSII) a medical device company developing and commercializing innovative interventional treatment systems for patients with peripheral and coronary artery disease, presented 18-month outcomes from its LIBERTY 360° study at the Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) 2018 interventional cardiology conference in Washington, D.C. The […]
IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Endologix, Inc. (Nasdaq:ELGX), a developer and marketer of innovative treatments for aortic disorders, announced today that the first patient was treated in the EVAS2 IDE Confirmatory Clinical Study of the investigational Nellix® EndoVascular Aneurysm Sealing (EVAS) System by Sajjad M. Hussain, M.D., Chief of the Department of Vascular Surgery […]
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Symic Bio, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel extracellular matrix targeting drugs, today announced results from a preclinical study of locally-applied therapeutic SB-030 in the reduction of inflammatory response and clot formation. In a porcine arteriovenous shunt model for vascular procedures such as bypass grafts and angioplasty, […]
