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AtriCure posts Street-beating Q3 results, maintains full-year outlook

November 4, 2021 By Jim Hammerand

AtriCure (NSDQ:ATRC) posted third-quarter results today that beat the consensus forecast on Wall Street and maintained its outlook for the full year. The Mason, Ohio-based atrial fibrillation (AFib) technology developer reported profits of $97.1 million, or $2.11 per diluted share, on sales of $70.5 million for the three months ended Sept. 30. Sales grew 28.7% […]

Filed Under: Blog, Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Catheters, Clinical Trials, Featured, MassDevice Earnings Roundup, News Well Tagged With: AFib, atrial fibrillation, atricure, EPi-Sense

FDA approves Abbott Amplatzer Amulet to reduce stroke risk for AFib patients

August 16, 2021 By Danielle Kirsh

Abbott today announced that it has received FDA approval for its Amplatzer Amulet device for people with atrial fibrillation. The Amplatzer Amulet is a left atrial appendage occluder to reduce ischemic stroke risk for people with atrial fibrillation (AFib). The device is a small pouch connected to the upper left chamber of the heart. AFib […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Structural Heart Tagged With: Abbott, AFib, Amplatzer Amulet, arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation

Volta Medical raises $28M for Afib treatment tech

January 7, 2021 By Sean Whooley

Volta Medical announced this week that it raised $28 million in a financing round for its AI algorithms for treating cardiac arrhythmias. Marseille, France-based Volta Medical said in a news release that the $28 million, raised in a round led by Gilde Healthcare with participation from existing shareholder Pasteur Mutualité, will help the company establish […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Featured, Funding Roundup, Health Technology, Software / IT, Structural Heart Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, Volta Medical

Livmor wins FDA nod for continuous heart monitoring wearable

October 15, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Livmor announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Livmor Halo wearable AFib detection system. Dallas-based Livmor’s Halo AFib detection system is a physician-prescribed wearable device for continuously monitoring pulse rhythms to detect AFib on-demand during the day and automatically overnight, according to a news release. Halo is deployed on a Samsung wearable […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Cardiovascular, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health Technology, Patient Monitoring, Regulatory/Compliance, Software / IT Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, FDA, Livmor

ESC Congress 2019: Biotronik beats Abbott at target lesion failure

September 3, 2019 By Sean Whooley

Biotronik said yesterday that its Orsiro stent tops the Xience stents made by Abbott (NYSE:ABT) when it comes to target lesion failure, according to data from a clinical trial. The randomized, controlled BioSTEMI trial was the first direct comparison between the two drug-eluting stents in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Biotronik announced […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Catheters, Clinical Trials, Drug-Eluting Stents, Hospital Care, Implants, News Well, Replacement Heart Valves, Stent Grafts, Stents, Surgical Tagged With: Abiomed, atrial fibrillation, Biosense Webster, Biotronik, CABG, Carmat Inc., CellAegis Devices, European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Johnson and Johnson

Thermedical wins FDA nod for Durablate catheter trial

July 31, 2018 By Brad Perriello

Thermedical said today that it won an investigational device exemption from the FDA for a clinical trial of its Durablate catheter for treating ventricular tachycardia. The Durablate catheter is designed to simultaneously inject hot saline and use radiofrequency energy to effect the ablation; the Thermedical claims that the method is 20 times more effective than conventional RF […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Catheters, Clinical Trials Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, Thermedical

Apple Watch detects atrial fibrillation using built-in technology

May 23, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

The Apple Watch can automatically detect atrial fibrillation (AF) using its built-in heart rate sensor and artificial intelligence, according to a new study. The research used a deep neural network that was based on photoplethysmographic (PPG) sensors that are frequently found in smart watches. When paired with an artificial intelligence-based algorithm, Apple Watch’s heart rate […]

Filed Under: Digital Health, Research & Development Tagged With: Apple, Apple Watch, atrial fibrillation, MedTech, smartwatch, wearables

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