ESC Congress 2018 Wrap-Up: Medtronic's Arctic Front; B. Braun's SeQuent Please; Biotronik's Orsiro Stent

Almost 33,000 cardiology professionals attended the 2018 European Society of Cardiology Congress last week in Munich. The meeting included 4,500 abstracts, including 17 late-breaking clinical trials, six clinical trial updates, and 20 registries. Here are some of the highlights of interest to the medtech industry.

Munich, Germany skyline at City Hall.
Munich City Hall • Source: shutterstock.com

The highest profile medtech news out of this year's European Society of Cardiology Congress was the presentation of the MITRA-FR results, which cast doubt on the benefits of treating severe secondary mitral valve regurgitation with Abbott Vascular's MitraClip. (Also see "ESC Congress 2018: MITRA-FR Finds No Benefit Of MitraClip In Severe Secondary MR" - Medtech Insight, 31 August, 2018.) But the Munich meeting also featured several other noteworthy device-trial presentations. Here's a look at a few of them.

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