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Cardica Announces Fiscal 2009 Second Quarter Financial Results

... surgeons for use in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures since FDA clearance in ... automated systems are used to connect all bypass vein grafts, eliminating the need to hand sew ... automated anastomosis systems for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. By replacing hand-sewn ...

Cardica Announces Fiscal 2009 First Quarter Financial Results

... Anastomosis System for use in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures, a pivotal event for ... automated systems are used to connect all bypass grafts, eliminating the need to hand sew any of ... automated anastomosis systems for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. By replacing hand-sewn ...

Volcano Announces Acquisition of Novelis, Inc.

... to highly invasive and costly coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures. The products under ... in most CTO patients being referred to open-heart bypass surgery. I have performed pre-clinical work with ... and expensive procedure -- coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Novelis is developing a ...

Kensey Nash Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for New Safe-Cross(R) Vessel Wall Detection Technology

... treated at all, or are referred for coronary bypass surgeries. Successful interventions of coronary ... survival rates, decreased rates of coronary bypass surgery, and enhanced quality of life. ... are referred to surgery, either for an invasive bypass procedure (170,000) or for amputation (160,000). ...

Cardica Announces Fiscal 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results and Business Progress

... produce excellent patency in off-pump cardiac bypass surgery; -- Hosted a premier live webcast ... Flex-A systems during an off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure and a taped robotic closed-chest bypass surgery, respectively; and -- Launched ...

Cardica and Intuitive Surgical to Host Educational Symposium on 'Advanced Techniques and Technologies in Robotic Coronary Revascularization and Mitral Valve Repair'

... closed-chest, robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass grafting." During the symposium, five leading ... in Robotic Mitral Valve and Coronary Artery bypass Surgery" To register for the symposium, ... automated anastomosis systems for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. By replacing hand-sewn ...

Angiotech and Symphony Medical Announce Licensing Agreement

... to Improve Outcomes of Coronary Artery bypass Grafting (CABG) and Cardiac Valve Surgeries ... (POAF) for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting and cardiac valve surgeries. "This ... drug-eluting stents, anti-restenosis therapy in bypass surgery and hemodialysis access procedures, and ...

Five Medical Technology Companies Host Premier Event for Cardiothoracic Surgeons

... automated anastomosis systems for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. By replacing hand-sewn ... to visually assess coronary vasculature and bypass graft functionality during the course of ... world. Transonic flow sensors are used in heart bypass machines and intraoperatively during coronary ...

The Wisconsin Heart Hospital Announces Live Webcast Demonstrating Breakthrough Device to Facilitate Beating Heart and Robotic Coronary Revascularization Surgery

... will webcast a live off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure from The Wisconsin Heart ... video footage that shows a robotic closed-chest bypass procedure using the C-Port Flex A system in ... live during the event. "This particular type of bypass is vital to the development of ...

Cardica Receives European CE Mark for C-Port Flex A System for Use in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

... Coronary Artery bypass Surgery REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 12 ... and grafts, during less invasive coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures. Recently, ... U.S. performed minimally invasive, closed-chest bypass procedures using Cardica's C-Port Flex A ...

Cardica's C-Port(R) Flex A Anastomosis System Allows Surgeons to Perform Revolutionary Closed-Chest Heart Bypass Surgeries

... ground-breaking minimally-invasive, closed-chest bypass procedures using Cardica's C-Port Flex A ... as it enhances closed-chest, robot-assisted bypass procedures. Minimally-invasive bypass surgeries ... to complete a multivessel minimally-invasive bypass procedure on a 67-year old male patient who had ...

Cardica Receives $1 Million Milestone Payment From Cook Medical for Development of Heart Defect Closure Device

... a natural extension for our automated closure technology beyond cardiac bypass surgery and that our device addresses an underserved patient population," ... is a leading provider of automated anastomosis systems for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. By replacing hand-sewn sutures with easy-to-use ...

FlowCardia, Inc. Appoints Chris Barys to Chief Operating Officer

... longer term outcomes. For many patients, this minimally invasive approach to CTO recanalization can eliminate the need for a potentially traumatic bypass procedure or amputation. About FlowCardia FlowCardia, Inc. is a privately held medical device company established in 2002 to ...

Schering-Plough Reports Financial Results for 2009 Second Quarter

... in a Phase III trial (RED-CABG) in May for acadesine, an investigational, potentially first-in-class adenosine regulating agent for use in heart bypass surgery; and In Animal Health, the launch of the first vaccine against canine influenza virus, which was granted a conditional product license ...

Harvest Technologies Announces Completion of Patient Enrollment in its 60 Patient Clinical Trial in India Using Autologous Adult Stem Cells to Treat Patients With Non-Reconstructable Critical Limb Ischemia

... effective treatments have been established in patients who are not amenable for the traditional revascularization therapies such as angioplasty and bypass procedures. Hence these patients have no option other than undergoing amputation or limb loss. In India a significant percentage of these patients ...

New Report Just Published: World Endoscopy Systems Market Report

... Malfunctioning II-35 Colorectal Cancer II-35 Cushing's Disease II-35 Dialysis Catheter II-35 Hirschsprung's Disease II-36 bypass Surgery II-36 Fetoscopy II-36 Bariatric Surgery II-36 Confocal Laser Endoscopy II-36 Interventional Pulmonology II-36 Endoscopic ...

Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Approval of Caldolor(TM)

... after taking aspirin or other NSAIDs. Caldolor is contraindicated for use during the peri-operative period in the setting of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Caldolor should be used with caution in patients with prior history of ulcer disease or GI bleeding, in patients with fluid ...

Multiple Types of Heart Attacks Reduced by Prasugrel in TRITON-TIMI 38 Trial

... with stent thrombosis as documented by an angiography or at autopsy Type 5: Heart attack associated with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). The investigators examined the size and timing of a new heart attack, as well as whether or not the heart attack ...

SYNTAX substudy shows positive outcomes for left main patients treated with TAXUS(R) Express(2)(R) Stent System

... trial, the first randomized, controlled clinical trial to compare percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using the TAXUS Stent to coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in patients with left main disease and/or significant narrowing of all three coronary arteries (three-vessel disease). The ...

Boston Scientific Welcomes Launch of Syntax Score Website

... trial to compare percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using the TAXUS(R) Express2(R) Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System to coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in patients with left main disease and/or significant narrowing of all three coronary arteries (three-vessel disease). These ...

Now Available: State-of-the-Art Gait Training Device to Help Millions Walk More Normally Again

... frequently continues even when it isn't being worn. This process (called neuroplasticity ) essentially creates new, healthy nerve circuits that bypass the disease-damaged areas associated with walking. A Breakthrough Device Developed and patented by MIT -educated Yoram Baram, ...

FDA has Granted HUD (Humanitarian Use Device) Designation to ITGI's Pericardium Covered Stents, Over and Under(R) and Aneugraft(R), for Treatment of Perforations and Dissections of Native Coronary Arteries and Saphenous Vein Grafts

... heterologous tissue designed to set a barrier between the blood vessel wall and its lumen. Pericardium Covered Stents are indicated for treatment of bypass stenosis, aneurysms and for emergency situations such as perforations. About ITGI Medical ITGI medical is engaged in research and ...

Symphony Medical Announces First Patient Successfully Treated With Novel Congestive Heart Failure Therapy

... a prophylactic method of preventing sustained post-operative atrial fibrillation (POAF), a common side effect of the approximately 1 million coronary bypass and cardiac valve replacement surgeries performed each year. Plexisyl has advanced to human clinical stage testing. A 32-patient safety study was ...

Cord Blood America Sees Significant Positives in President Obama's Lifting of Stem Cell Funding Restrictions

... trials forward, we'll be ready with the inventory as therapies become commercialized. Without the inventory in storage, a great therapy can bypass a patient in need," Mr. Schissler said. "A perfect example of why storage is so important was chronicled by The Official Journal of the ...

European Commission Approves EFIENT(R) (prasugrel) for Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Undergoing PCI

... endpoint of cardiovascular death, non-fatal heart attack or non-fatal stroke) in ACS patients undergoing PCI. The risk of non-coronary artery bypass graft (non-CABG) major bleeding, including fatal bleeding, was higher with prasugrel (2.2 percent incidence) compared with clopidogrel (1.7 percent ...

Netsmart University Announces Partner Referral Agreement With New York Association of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Providers

... these challenging economic times," said ASAP's Executive Director John Coppola. "Accessing this training through ASAP's Web site makes it possible to bypass geographical boundaries by offering a forum where they can share best practices and other professional development opportunities. We are pleased to ...

You: Being Beautiful Authors Mehmet Oz, MD, & Michael Roizen, MD, Call Ribose One of the Decade's 'Real Nutritional Heroes'

... of exhaustion," said Teitelbaum. Corvalen(R) is also used by physicians to treat congestive heart failure and to prepare patients for off-pump bypass surgery(1). "Bioenergy D-Ribose(TM) also has sweeping applications for healthy people who need more energy every day," said Raj Khankari, ....

CeloNova BioSciences Commercializes CATANIA(TM) Coronary Stent With NanoThin Polyzene(R)-F in Europe and Middle East

... showed zero (0.0) percent stent thrombosis (Academic Research Consortium, or ARC-defined), death, myocardial infarction, stroke, or coronary artery bypass graft. Target lesion revascularization was 10.9 percent (only 3.6 percent clinically driven, 7.3 percent non-clinically driven), with a binary ...

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Receives Prestigious Recognition for Patient Safety Efforts in National Survey

... well do hospitals perform seven complex high-risk procedures and care for high-risk deliveries? The high-risk procedures are coronary artery bypass graft, percutaneous coronary intervention, abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve replacement, pancreatic resection, esophagectomy ...

Nuvelo and ARCA biopharma Announce Merger Agreement Creating Late-Stage Cardiovascular Biotechnology Company

... that is being tested as a potential new therapy in indications where heparin and protamine are the current standard of care, such as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, kidney dialysis and a variety of vascular surgical and coronary interventions. A Phase 2 trial evaluating NU172 in CABG ...

Landmark SYNTAX Trial Reports Comparable Safety Outcomes for Complex Patients Treated With TAXUS(R) Express2(TM) Stents or Bypass Surgery

... percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using the TAXUS(R) Express2(TM) Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System to contemporary coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. The overall results demonstrated no statistically significant differences between PCI and CABG in rates of death or myocardial ...

Nuvelo Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results

... with our lead compound, NU172, a short-acting anticoagulant for the potential treatment of medical or surgical procedures, such as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, percutaneous coronary intervention and kidney dialysis, and we have already begun to see data from our subsequent Phase 1b ...

Ovalum Ltd. Announces Success in Coronary Cases Using CiTop™ ExPander™ Guidewire

... ExPander™ Guidewire provides a simpler and more efficient means to open the Chronic Total Occlusion, thus avoiding the need for coronary bypass surgery. Noam Shamay, founder and CEO of Ovalum Ltd. said: "I am enthusiastic about the opportunity to introduce a significantly less invasive ...

Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against Maquet Affiliates

... will do the same," said Mark Sutter, President and CEO, Terumo Cardiovascular Systems. The VirtuoSaph system is used during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), the most common cardiac surgery procedure. During the procedure, the surgeon removes a healthy artery or vein from elsewhere in the ...

Ovalum Ltd. Announces Sales Launch of CiTop™ Product-Line in Europe

... in the treatment of chronic complete arterial blockage (CTO). These obstructions are hard to traverse and patients are therefore often referred to bypass surgery or limb amputation. (PRWEB) July 9, 2008 -- Following the approval for CE Marking from the European Economic Area, ...

NorthPoint Domain and Boston Medical Center Partner to Apply Advanced Patient Engagement Instruments to Pioneering Cardiac Robotic Surgery Program

... is the only hospital in Boston -- and one of a handful in the United States -- to offer minimally invasive robotically assisted coronary artery bypass surgery. For more information about the BMC Cardiovascular Center, please visit http://www.bmc.cardiologydomain.com . CONTACT: IC Sciences ...

Studies Show USGI Medical's EndoSurgical Operating System(TM) Enables Incisionless Surgery to Reduce Gastric Pouch and Stoma After Gastric Bypass

... of Christopher Thompson, M.D., director of Developmental Endoscopy at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and his team performing the surgical bypass revision procedure. USGI designed the EOS to addresses a range of Incisionless surgical procedures. The system facilitates access and visualization ...

Cardica to Present at Jefferies 2nd Annual Healthcare Conference

... to allow for any necessary software downloads. About Cardica Cardica is a leading provider of automated anastomosis systems for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. By replacing hand-sewn sutures with easy-to-use automated systems, Cardica's products provide cardiovascular surgeons with ...

EnzySurge, Maker of DermaStream(TM), Announces the Formation of its Scientific Advisory Board

... treatment of carotid and vertebral artery disease to prevent stroke, diabetic foot problems, limb salvage using endovascular techniques and leg bypass surgery, and treatment and prevention of graft stenosis. Dr. Mills has published over 130 manuscripts, produced five films of complex operative ...

Biopure Announces 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results

... glutamer-250 (bovine)], or HBOC-201. Clinical Program Update The company's ongoing clinical trial in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery is nearing completion with 56 of 60 patients enrolled. U.S. Navy The company continues to support the Naval Medical Research ...