LUMEDX’s Cardiac Transplant solution is an integrated part of the company’s comprehensive suite of cardiovascular imaging and information management tools. This robust integration produces a comprehensive patient record as heart center staff can reportedly access, view and manage all events that have occurred across the cardiovascular service line from first consultation through evaluation, activation, transplant and post-transplant follow-up visits.

The FDA has granted ATS Medical Inc. approval to begin marketing additional sizes of its line of ATS Open Pivot Mechanical Heart Valves, as the company expands its valve product offerings in the U.S. market. The company has now added 25 and 35mm mitral valves to its line of U.S. products.

Terumo Interventional Systems recently released its Runthrough NS Coronary Guidewire in the U.S. market for use in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasties (PTCA), as the company expands its position in the coronary market.

AGA Medical Corp. announced today that it has received FDA and European CE Mark approvals for the AMPLATZER Vascular Plug II ("vascular plug II"), a self- expandable nitinol mesh occlusion device designed to be introduced in a minimally invasive fashion through a catheter.

Concentric Medical has obtained FDA 510(k) clearance for its Merci L6 Retriever, a device that restores blood flow to ischemic stroke patients. The Merci Retriever is designed to restore blood flow by engaging, capturing and removing blood clots.

St. Jude Medical Inc. announced FDA approval of its first radiofrequency (RF) wireless devices to treat patients with heart failure and with potentially lethal heart arrhythmias.

Medrad released the PRE Pressure-Rated Extension Set, a disposable tube set that attaches the patient catheter and the power injector tubing that is rated for CT power injection and specifically approved for Medrad CT contrast injection systems.

Cordis Corp. announced the introduction in the U.S. market of the FIRE STAR Rx PTCA Dilatation Catheter and the DURA STAR Rx PTCA Dilatation Catheter, as the company builds its portfolio of products and services to support interventional cardiologists and cath lab teams.

Siemens Medical Solutions has launched its new pocket ultrasound system, the ACUSON P10, which is a little larger than a common PDA, intended for complementary initial diagnostic care and triage.

Agfa HealthCare demonstrated at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2007 its new IMPAX Cardiovascular (CV) Suite, a system that integrates multilingual, multimodality image and reporting capabilities and provides access to a consolidated view of all cross-modality cardiology and radiology images within a single review station.

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