Heart Valve Articles & Analysis

Neuchâtel, Switzerland, January 14, 2020 – Novostia announces that it has been awarded EUR 2.5 million grant from the European Union under the highly competitive Horizon 2020 EIC Accelerator. The EIC Accelerator is part of the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot that supports top class companies with funding opportunities and acceleration services to help them develop and bring ...

By Novostia SA

Neuchâtel, Switzerland, February 22, 2019 – Novostia announces that it raised CHF 6.5 million from private investors to advance its disruptive aortic and mitral heart valve to clinical trials. Heart valve diseases affect more than 100 million people worldwide. Every year hundreds of thousands of patients undergo a heart valve replacement. Available technologies entail serious ...

By Novostia SA

Colibri Heart Valve, LLC, a privately held medical device company, has been granted yet another patent directed to prosthetic heart valves. More particularly, today the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office granted Colibri U.S. Patent No. 8,361,144 entitled, “Percutaneously Deliverable Heart Valve Device And Methods Associated Therewith.” The patent is directed to a method of making a ...

By Colibri Heart Valve LLC

Colibri Heart Valve LLC, a privately held emerging medical device company, has received an Issue Notification from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regarding the forthcoming granting of U.S. Patent No. 9,125,739 (the “’739 Patent”) titled, “Percutaneous Replacement Heart Valve and a Delivery and Implantation System.” This will be Colibri’s 12th ...

By Colibri Heart Valve LLC

Colibri Heart Valve LLC, a privately held emerging medical device company, has received notification from the European Patent Office that patent application No. 11751242.6 titled, “Percutaneously Deliverable Heart Valve and Methods Associated Therewith” has been granted and is expected to publish as European Patent No. 2542184 (the “European Patent”) on May 25, 2016. This ...

By Colibri Heart Valve LLC

Colibri Heart Valve LLC, a privately held emerging medical device company, today announced that the Colibri transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) System has been used on an additional four patients in the ongoing international, single-arm, open-label early feasibility study (EFS). Initial post-implantation results from these patients, who received a 24mm valve, show favorable low aortic ...

By Colibri Heart Valve LLC

Colibri Heart Valve LLC, a privately held emerging medical device company, today announced that results from the company’s international, single-arm, open-label early feasibility study (EFS) of the Colibri transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system will be presented at the upcoming Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) annual meeting taking place September 21-25, 2018 ...

By Colibri Heart Valve LLC

JenaValve Technology, Inc., developer and manufacturer of differentiated transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) systems, today announced the first commercial implants with the Trilogy Heart Valve System in Europe. The procedures, which included treatment of both aortic regurgitation1 (AR) and aortic stenosis1 (AS), took place in multiple centers in Germany, marks the official start of the ...

By JenaValve Technology, Inc.

Colibri Heart Valve LLC, a privately held emerging medical device company focused on structural heart applications, announces the formation of a new company called Colorado Therapeutics LLC. In conjunction with its formation, Colibri has granted Colorado Therapeutics a license to develop and market innovative and disruptive xenogenic (sourced from different mammalian species) biologic tissue ...

By Colibri Heart Valve LLC

JenaValve Technology, Inc., developer, and manufacturer of differentiated transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) systems, today announced FDA approval for the company to initiate its Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) PMA clinical trial for the Trilogy™ Heart Valve System for severe symptomatic, high-surgical risk aortic regurgitation. Aortic regurgitation (AR) is a condition ...

By JenaValve Technology, Inc.

Xeltis announced today that is planning to accelerate its clinical trial program for three restorative devices in parallel. CEO Eliane Schutte provided a sneak preview on Xeltis’ plans to an audience of investors and medtech companies at the Medtech and Diagnostics Forum organised by the investment bank Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets. Xeltis currently has three restorative devices in ...

By XELTIS BV

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €15 million quasi-equity financing agreement with Xeltis. The EIB’s non-dilutive financing will support the acceleration of clinical programmes for three of Xeltis’ revolutionary, restorative devices. The financing is being made available under the European Guarantee Fund (EGF), an EIB Group initiative in partnership with EU Member ...

By XELTIS BV

Xeltis, a clinical-stage company with the most advanced polymer-based restorative cardiovascular devices, today announced that it has started the first-ever pivotal trial for a synthetic restorative pulmonary valve. To date, pediatric patients requiring right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) reconstruction have been successfully implanted as part of the global, FDA-approved Xplore2/Pivotal study. ...

By XELTIS BV

BlueWind Medical, developer of the RENOVA iStim, an innovative, leadless, miniature neurostimulation platform initially being developed for the treatment of Over Active Bladder (OAB), announced the appointment of Daniel T. Lemaitre as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective January 1st, 2020. Mr. Lemaitre has served as Chairman of the Board of BlueWind Medical since November 2018. Lemaitre is ...

By BlueWind Medical

Anteris Technologies Ltd (ASX: AVR) (Anteris or the Company) announces the appointment of the internationally recognized Interventional Cardiologist, Dr Chris Meduri MD MPH, as its Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Dr Meduri is a recognized leader in the field of valvular heart disease, serving as the national principle investigator of several valve trials and on numerous steering committees. He has ...

By Anteris Technologies Limited

A mother of four from Chadler, Arizona is waging a war against dirty playgrounds at fast-food restaurants. Dr. Erin Carr-Jordan was horrified when she discovered that the local McDonald’s jungle gym where her children played was filthy. The staff did not clean it—even after repeated complaints—so she decided to take matters into her own hands and take samples of the grime ...

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

BioTrace Medical, Inc., the leader in innovative temporary pacing technology, today announced the company’s key activities at the Annual Transcatheter Valve Therapy Structural Heart Summit (TVT 2019), which will take place June 12-15 at the Sheraton Grand Chicago. The company’s Tempo Temporary Pacing Lead will be featured in a symposium titled “Improving Safety & Reducing ...

By BioTrace Medical Inc

JenaValve Technology, Inc., developer, and manufacturer of differentiated transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) systems (also referred to as TAVR, or transcatheter aortic valve replacement) for the treatment of aortic valve disease, today announced that it has received CE Mark for its TrilogyTM Heart Valve System for the treatment of both aortic regurgitation (AR), also known as aortic ...

By JenaValve Technology, Inc.

CathWorks announced that Ramin Mousavi has joined CathWorks as Vice President of Global Marketing & Strategy. Mr. Mousavi, an experienced cardiovascular marketer, will take responsibility for the CathWorks FFRangio™ System U.S. clinical and commercial launch and direct future expansion into other global markets. Mr. Mousavi has over 15 years of global marketing, strategy, product ...

By CathWorks

CytoSorbents Corporation (NASDAQ: CTSO), a leader in the treatment of life-threatening conditions in intensive care and cardiac surgery using blood purification, announced the public availability of preliminary data abstracts from two separate endocarditis studies, including the REMOVE study, to be presented at the upcoming European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) annual meeting ...

By CytoSorbents Corporation