CardioClasp Inc.

David Melvin, MD, a cardiac transplant surgeon who started and built the heart transplant program at the University Hospital, Cincinnati, took a sabbatical in 1991 to research and invent devices for congestive heart failure. His efforts resulted in several patented devices, among them the CardioClasp. CardioClasp is a simple, passive device that is designed to surround a patient's failing heart, to geometrically remodel it and correct for the pathological increase in size that congestive heart failure causes.