St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the launch of the ADO II AS (AMPLATZER Duct Occluder II Additional Sizes) pediatric clinical trial. The U.S. IDE clinical trial will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the St. Jude Medical Amplatzer Duct Occluder II AS (ADO II AS), a first-of-its-kind device specifically designed for closure of the small patent ductus arteriosus (PDA).

Medtronic plc announced last week that it has notified customers of a voluntary recall of certain lots of its Pipeline embolization device, Alligator retrieval device and X-Celerator hydrophilic guidewire. The recall also includes the stylet containing UltraFlow flow directed micro catheters and Marathon flow directed micro catheters. These products are produced, marketed and sold by Medtronic's Neurovascular business, which is part of the Brain Therapies division in the company's Restorative Therapies Group.

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Analogic Corp. announced last week that it will introduce its new premium cardiac imaging software for the bk3500 ultrasound system at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Assembly, Oct. 16–19, 2016, in Las Vegas.

At the 2016 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2016), Siemens Healthineers will showcase an expanded version of xSPECT Quant, its established single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) quantification technology.

October 18, 2016 — Abbott and St. Jude Medical Inc. announced today an agreement to sell certain products from their electrophysiology (EP) and vascular closure portfolios to Terumo Corp. The transaction reflects a purchase price of about $1.12 billion and is subject to the successful completion of Abbott's acquisition of St. Jude Medical and antitrust regulatory approvals. 

Read the article “Abbott to Acquire St. Jude Medical,” from April 2016.

Lantheus Holdings Inc. announced in late September that sub-analysis data from the first Phase 3 study of flurpiridaz F-18 for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in patients undergoing exercise stress testing. The data was presented at the 21st annual scientific session of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), Sept. 22-25 in Boca Raton, Fla.

Medtronic plc last week unveiled new health economic analysis data from the FIRE AND ICE trial that favor cryoballoon catheter ablation over radiofrequency (RF) ablation related to trial period cost savings. The savings came as a result of fewer cardiovascular (CV) rehospitalizations and repeat ablations.

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