Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: 3D printing of heart valve models; Findings challenge recommendations for antiplatelet treatment after TAVI; Telehealth could help those with high BP avoid heart attack, stroke.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Deep chest compressions help save brain; Selfies for heart disease?; Looking to the past to understand the heart.
Transit Scientific LLC’s XO Cross Microcatheter platform was used in its first cases worldwide last week following its May 2020 clearance by the U.S. FDA and showed improved control and imaging. The company designed the platform to facilitate guidewire support, guidewire exchange, and contrast media injection during complex peripheral vascular interventions such as late-stage peripheral artery disease (PAD) and critical limb ischemia (CLI).
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Assessing stroke risk via metabolic syndrome; Under pressure; While less deadly, atrial fibrillation still raises concerns.
In a single draft coverage memo, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to eliminate national coverage for artificial hearts and to provide coverage of ventricular assist devices (VADs) coverage for those in need of short-term ventricular support. Coverage of artificial hearts would thus revert to Medicare administrative contractors, while the change in VAD coverage would resolve a long-running dispute between cardiologists and the agency.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Mutation could hint at heart disease therapeutic target; Nanoparticle system captures heart-disease biomarker; Helping predict chest pain in those with heart disease.
HONG KONG – A Chinese med-tech company plans to take to market what it claims is the first electrocardiography (ECG) diagnostic machine powered by AI, but as it moves to markets beyond China, it could face significant competition.
Startup Conformal Medical Inc. has reeled in $85 million in a series C round to support a U.S. pivotal trial of its CLAAS technology, a device designed to seal off the heart’s left atrial appendage (LAA) to reduce the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. The financing included participation from new investors Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC and an undisclosed strategic investor.
Despite the ongoing pandemic, Acutus Medical Inc. (NASDAQ:AFIB) decided to go down the IPO route. It officially started trading today after reporting its offering of more than 8.8 million shares of its common stock at $18 per share, with expected gross proceeds of $158.8 million. Last month, the Carlsbad, Calif.-based company estimated that the IPO price per share would be between $16 and $18.
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