Specific lots of three coronary catheters have been recalled by Abbott Vascular due to potential difficulty in removing the protective balloon sheath, an issue that has resulted in at least one ...

The market for introducer sheaths is limited by the physician's option to use a guiding catheter directly, particularly in the coronary segment, where guiding catheters are widely deployed. Vascular ...

A novel, stent-shaped device that provides external buttressing to saphenous vein grafts placed during coronary artery bypass surgery was safe, but failed to improve 12-month patency of vein grafts, ...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Jan. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Regado Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGDO), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the late-stage clinical development of its first-in-class, actively ...

At Abiomed's European headquarters in Aachen, Germany, Impella heart pumps have been developed and produced for more than 20 years to stabilize and recover the human heart. The single access procedure ...

Houston's Saranas raised $4.5 million in equity to develop and commercialize its cardiac sheath for the early detection of internal bleeding in procedures requiring a catheter to access a blood vessel ...

Lead extraction procedures are becoming common owing to the growing number of implantations in an ageing population, frequent device infections, and lead recalls and malfunctions The most common ...

Administering nitroglycerin during the course of transradial cardiac catheterization fails to reduce the risk of radial artery occlusion, according to results from the large PATENS trial. Whether ...

The Ridgewood hospital announced Jan. 18 it is the first medical institution in the world to use a new technology from Abiomed during a high-risk coronary stenting procedure. Under the leadership of ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Surmodics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRDX), a leading provider of medical device and in vitro diagnostic technologies to the health care industry, announced it has received ...

AACHEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following consultation with its notified body, MEDCERT GmbH, Abiomed is introducing the single access procedure with Impella CP introducer sheaths for the treatment ...