Medtronic Inc. announced CE mark and launch of the NC Euphora noncompliant balloon dilatation catheter. 

Strokes kill nearly 130,000 Americans every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because approximately 30 percent of strokes are caused by blockages in the carotid arteries — the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain— successful treatment of carotid disease could save thousands of them, according to the Society for Vascular Surgery, members of which will discuss and debate treatment options for carotid disease at the 2014 Vascular Annual Meeting, taking place June 4-7 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.

June 3, 2014 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. received CE mark for the advanced Edwards Intuity Elite valve system. The next-generation, rapid deployment system facilitates smaller incisions in surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) procedures, and is built upon extensive evidence supporting the durability of the Carpentier-Edwards Perimount heart valve design.

June 3, 2014 — JenaValve Technology Inc., a privately held, venture-backed developer of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) systems for the treatment of aortic valve disease, announced the results of the JenaValve EvalUation of Long Term Performance and Safety In PaTients with SEvere AoRtic Stenosis (JUPITER) registry at EuroPCR in Paris.

June 3, 2014 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it approved Zontivity (vorapaxar) tablets to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, cardiovascular death and need for procedures to restore the blood flow to the heart in patients with a previous heart attack or blockages in the arteries to the legs.

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