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St. Jude Gains Force-Sensing Catheter Technology With Endosense Acquisition

The $170 million acquisition, plus milestones, gives St. Jude Medical access to contact-force-sensing catheter ablation technology, strengthening its cardiac ablation pipeline and offering opportunities to enhance currently marketed products.

St. Jude Medical Inc. envisions both immediate and future product development opportunities as a result of its Aug. 19 acquisition of Endosense SA, a Swiss developer of technology that senses the contact force between an ablation catheter and the target tissue.

St. Jude paid $170 million in cash for privately held Endosense, with an additional milestone payment of up to $161 million contingent upon the achievement and timing of FDA approval of Endosense’s TactiCath irrigated ablation catheter for treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

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