Descending Thoracic Aorta Articles & Analysis
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Puzzle Medical Devices Inc. is delighted to announce its first-in-human results for the ModulHeart have been presented at the prestigious American Heart Association (AHA) meeting held November 5–7, 2022 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, IL. Montreal-based Puzzle Medical Devices Inc. (PMD) developed a percutaneous heart pump designed to support cardiac and renal function ...
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) is pleased to announce that Puzzle Medical Devices Inc. has won the TCT 2022 Shark Tank Innovation Competition for its novel circulatory support device that is implanted percutaneously in the abdominal aorta. The competition took place during Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the world’s premier educational meeting specializing in ...
Montreal-based Puzzle Medical Devices Inc. (PMD) developed a percutaneous heart pump designed to support cardiac and renal function in patients with advanced heart failure (HF). PMD announced it will present its first-in-human results for the ModulHeartTM in the following session during the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting held September 16-19, 2022 at the Boston Convention ...
Montreal-based Puzzle Medical Devices Inc., announced today the successful completion of the company’s ?rst-in-human study to evaluate the performance of its ModulHeart percutaneous heart pump designed to reduce cardiac afterload and improve renal perfusion in patients with advanced heart failure (HF). Four patients had ModulHeart deployed to provide circulatory support while undergoing ...
The unique placement of the small but powerful micropump in the descending thoracic aorta is intended to simultaneously unload the heart and support the kidneys by accelerating native blood flow in the aorta. ...
Thoraflex Hybrid is a single use medical device combining a Gelweave polyester graft with a Nitinol self-expanding stent graft and is indicated for the open surgical repair or replacement of damaged or diseased vessels of the aortic arch and descending aorta with or without involvement of the ascending aorta in cases of aneurysm and/or ...
The device is percutaneously placed in the descending thoracic aorta for up to 7 days to simultaneously unload and rest the heart and increase perfusion of the kidneys. ...
The procedure was performed safely and easily due to the pump’s position in the aorta versus the heart, which allowed for rapid deployment of the catheter-based pump and significantly reduced the risk of stroke and damage to the heart,” stated Dr. ...
Centerline Biomedical, Inc. (Centerline) announced on April 21, 2020 the receipt of a Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This represents the fourth small business grant awarded to the startup founded to commercialize and innovate IOPS™, a novel image guidance ...
and a six-patient First-in-Human study¹°, Aortix benefits both the heart and the kidneys based on its unique design and placement in the descending thoracic aorta. Aortix can disrupt the harmful cardiorenal cycle in two ways: above the pump, it rests the heart by reducing aortic root pressure (afterload) resulting in increased cardiac output ...
” Thinner than a pencil and placed in less than ten minutes in a simple cath-lab procedure, Aortix™ offers hope for the large population of heart failure patients who are non-responders to medical therapy, but not ill enough to consider highly invasive and expensive surgical interventions like heart transplantation or LVAD implants. Placed in the descending ...
The unique placement of the small but powerful micropump in the descending thoracic aorta is intended to simultaneously unload the heart and support the kidneys by accelerating native blood flow in the aorta. ...
The unique placement of the small but powerful micropump in the descending thoracic aorta is intended to simultaneously unload the heart and support the kidneys by accelerating native blood flow in the ...
The unique placement of the small but powerful micropump in the descending thoracic aorta is intended to simultaneously unload the heart and support the kidneys by accelerating native blood flow in the aorta. ...
In April 2013, final-year Danish medical student Habib Frost was called out to an emergency: a four-month old girl had just suffered cardiac arrest. Frost’s team tried defibrillation, but to no avail. Immediately after, the team was called out again: another case of cardiac arrest, this time a woman in her 30s. Once again, Frost was powerless to save her life. “I felt ...