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Biotronik Addresses US CRM Market With Its Rivacor And Acticor Lines

 
• By Reed Miller

The company recently launched six new implantable high-voltage cardiac rhythm management devices with the thin elliptical BIOshape to minimize the risk of skin erosion around the device pocket. Rivacor and Acticor also feature Biotronik's DX leadless atrial diagnostic technology, and MRI AutoDetect which automatically switches the device to a MR-safe mode when it enters a magnetic resonance imaging environment.

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Biotronik SE & Co. KG believes the unique features of its new Acticor and Rivacor lines of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds) will allow the company to take market share from bigger competitors in the US cardiac rhythm management market.

The US Food and Drug Administration approved a PMA supplement covering six new Biotronik high-voltage devices to treat arrhythmias in March: Acticor DX, Acticor CRT-DX Bipolar, Acticor CRT-DX, Rivacor VR-T, Rivacor DR-T, Rivacor HF-T QP

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