Medtech Insight's Results Recap covers major device trial results appearing on MedDeviceTracker. This week's edition, covering March 1 to March 7, includes results of late-breaking trials presented at the 2019 Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) conference in Washington, DC, including new data supporting Biotronik’s biodegradable polymer sirolimus-eluting stent and the company’s resorbable magnesium stent, results of the LRT trial of transcatheter aortic valves in low-risk patients, plus promising clinical data supporting Ablative System’s alcohol renal-denervation system.
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Three-year results from the BIO-RESORT randomized trial comparing Biotronik’s Orsiro bioresorbable-polymer, sirolimus-eluting coronary stent to three competing drug-eluting stents...
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Abbott received the US FDA nod for its Tendyne system, offering a minimally invasive alternative to replace the valves of patients with severe mitral valve disease who are at risk for open-heart surgery.
Cardiosense has launched a nationwide clinical study, SEISMIC-HF II, to validate its non-invasive, AI-powered technology for monitoring heart failure. The data will be used to file for US regulatory clearance of the Cardiosense heart failure monitoring platform.
J&J's EMEA head of digital solutions, Julia Fishman, talks about the major hurdles in scaling digital innovation, tips for clinical adoption and what’s up next on J&J’s innovation road map. Robot-assisted surgery pioneer Ivo Broeders gives his perspective on the difficulties in clinical adoption.
The KINCISE 2 Surgical Automated System aims to “reduce the physical burden on surgeons compared to manual impaction in primary and revision hip and revision knee replacement procedures,” said J&J MedTech.
Allen Burton, Abbott’s medical director of neuromodulation told Medtech Insight that the delivery system was developed to make the procedure easier for physicians, especially those who perform the implantations infrequently.
