Abbott’s Portico transcatheter aortic valve performed well enough to meet the statistical criteria for non-inferiority to surgery in the PORTICO IDE trial. The company will likely look to its next-generation of Portico for more impressive results.
One-year outcomes from the 750-patient, randomized PORTICO IDE trial show Abbott Laboratories Inc.’s Portico TAVR system is non-inferior to Edwards Lifesciences Corp.'s Sapien and Medtronic PLC’s CoreValve TAVR systems in patients with high or extreme surgical risk.
Greg Fontana of the Cardiovascular Institute of Los Robles in Thousand Oaks, CA, presented the results at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular...
US Medicare has proposed national coverage of renal denervation for patients with uncontrolled hypertension. The treatment is seeing other advances as well, with Medtronic piloting a longer catheter and a multi-organ approach and a blood test to identify the best candidates fresh on the
The pulsed-field ablation market is surging, with the UK NHS opening doors and FDA updates for major players. Medtech Insight spoke with Steven Mickelsen, founder of Farapulse (the first clinically approved PFA system), about the sector's growth and his new venture, Field Medical.
Medicare beneficiaries with tricuspid regurgitation will now have access to an innovative treatment from Abbott that offers a minimally invasive alternative to open-heart surgery.
A recent approval from the US FDA allowing Boston Scientific to broaden its labeling for its pulse field ablation system means more patients with one type of AFib will have access to a promising new treatment.
A recent approval from the US FDA allowing Boston Scientific to broaden its labeling for its pulse field ablation system means more patients with one type of AFib will have access to a promising new treatment.
The Milner Institute, the on-campus hub for start-up acceleration at Cambridge University, hosted its annual Pitch Day on July 1. Start-ups Panakeia, PathwayBio and Sentinal4D presented diagnostic technologies.
Broad participation by EU member states in a new pilot to test a unified procedure for evaluating applications for combined drug and IVD studies shows they recognize its value, says Monique Al, vice-chair of the Clinical Trials Coordination Group.
