June 3, 2011 -- Maquet Cardiovascular announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company 510(k) clearance to market its CardioRoot aortic graft in the United States. A one-piece design, aortic root graft, CardioRoot will be used by vascular and cardiovascular surgeons to surgically repair or replace diseased and damaged aortae. CardioRoot is now commercially available in the United States.

June 3, 2011 – European CE mark approval was granted to expand use of the VerifyNow point-of-care P2Y12 test platelet reactivity test to identify patients who are poor-responders to antiplatelet therapy (e.g. clopidogrel).

June 2, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week is warning medical professionals and U.S. medical device vendors to beware of possible safety concerns and radioactive contamination of medical devices and components coming from Japan.

June 3, 2011 - In a two studies published recently in Heart Rhythm Society annual meeting, Investigators from the department of cardiology in Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, U.K., found that Cheetah Medical's Nicom system is an effective and practical method for optimizing the function of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) pacemakers.

May 31, 2011 – Boston Scientific Corp. announced it is voluntarily recalling all of its iCross intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) coronary imaging catheters. The company said there have been several occurrences of the catheter tip detaching due to embrittlement of the catheter material.

June 1, 2011 – If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That is what St. Jude Medical is doing after one court rejected its claims that Volcano Corp. developed an optical coherence tomography (OCT) intravascular imaging system using technology it took from St. Jude.

May 26, 2011 - Ford engineers have developed a car seat that can monitor a driver's heartbeat, opening the door to a wealth of health, convenience and even life-saving potential.
A joint project undertaken by experts from Ford's European Research and Innovation Centre in Aachen, Germany and Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University, the seat uses six special embedded sensors to detect electrical impulses generated by the heart.

May 26, 2011 – AngioDynamics announced the launch of the new 90 cm NeverTouch procedure kit featuring a longer TRE-Sheath introducer to gain vascular access above the ankle for the treatment of varicose veins that extend below the knee. The new kit complements existing kit lengths of 25 cm, 45 cm and 65 cm, and rounds out the NeverTouch fiber product offering.

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