The Latest Cardiac and Vascular News
RARITAN, N.J., May 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a global leader of in vitro diagnostics, welcomes and supports today’s inclusion of the biomarkers in the NephroCheck® Test, an FDA-cleared and CE-marked urine test that indicates kidney stress in advance of acute kidney injury (AKI), in consensus guidelines released by ERAS® Cardiac Surgery. The new guidelines were presented as part […]
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN) (“LivaNova” or the “Company”), a market-leading medical technology company, has received CE Mark approval for its Bicarbon® aortic valves for use with low-dose anticoagulant therapy. The expanded CE labeling means that a lower international normalized ratio (INR), the standardized index used to measure blood coagulability, can be targeted following Bicarbon aortic valve […]
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN) (“LivaNova” or the “Company”), a market-leading medical technology company, has announced the first patient enrollment in the Perceval® Valve Clinical study for Chinese Registration (“PERFECT”) Trial. The study is a pre-market, prospective, single-arm trial. The PERFECT trial is being conducted to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the Perceval sutureless aortic heart […]
Company celebrates new design that delivers improved flexibility, clarity and control LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN) (“LivaNova” or the “Company”), a market-leading medical technology company, today announced it has achieved CE Mark for its new PureFlexTM line of adult arterial cannulae. Engineered to improve the critical link between the patient and extracorporeal circulation, PureFlex cannulae provide curved and […]
MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J., Dec. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — CytoSorbents (NASDAQ: CTSO), a critical care immunotherapy leader commercializing its flagship CytoSorb® blood filter to treat deadly inflammation in critically-ill and cardiac surgery patients around the world, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of its REFRESH 2 Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application, with conditions. These […]
ATLANTA, Nov. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — CryoLife, Inc. (NYSE: CRY),a leading medical device and tissue processing company focused on cardiac and vascular surgery, announced today that enrollment has started in the Company’s BioGlue clinical trial in China. The results from the trial will serve as the basis of the Company’s regulatory submission to the Chinese Food and […]
MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J., Oct. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — CytoSorbents Corporation (NASDAQ: CTSO), a critical care immunotherapy leader using CytoSorb® blood purification to treat deadly inflammation in critically-ill and cardiac surgery patients around the world, highlights the largest endocarditis valve replacement study using CytoSorb published to date entitled, “Hemoadsorption treatment of patients with acute infective endocarditis during surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass – […]
ATLANTA, Oct. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — CryoLife, Inc. (NYSE: CRY), a leading medical device and tissue processing company focused on cardiac and vascular surgery, announced the appointment of Jeffrey H. Burbank to its Board of Directors effective September 29, 2017. Pat Mackin, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “Jeff has over 30 years of in-depth management experience in medical devices, highlighted […]
ANAHEIM, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ClearFlow Inc., a medical device company based in Anaheim, California, has announced the publication of significantly positive results in a study evaluating the company’s PleuraFlow® Active Clearance Technology® System. Data from a peer-reviewed clinical study indicating a marked reduction in Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation (POAF) among patients with active clearance of chest tubes after heart surgery was […]
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN) (“LivaNova” or the “Company”), a market-leading medical technology company, today announced the publication of the analysis, “The Perceval® Sutureless Aortic Valve: Review of Outcomes, Complications and Future Direction,” by Powell, Pelletier, Chu, Bouchard, Melvin and Adams in the latest issue of Innovations1. The literature review, which included a meta-analysis of 89 studies, […]
