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Cryogenics

Here’s how you heat up cold hearts—for transplantation

March 8, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

A University of Minnesota–led research team has successfully warmed large-scale animal heart valves and blood vessels that were previously preserved at low temperatures. The discovery of this rewarming process is pivotal for organs and tissues that are left in storage for transplantation for extended periods. “This is the first time that anyone has been able […]

Filed Under: Biotech, Transplants Tagged With: Cryogenics, MedTech, organ donation, University of Minnesota

HRS 2015: Cryoablation as good as standard ablation for AF

May 15, 2015 By Fink Densford Leave a Comment

HRS 2015: Cryoablation as effective as radio frequency ablation

Cryoablation is as effective as radio-frequency ablation in treating paroxysmal atrial fibrillations, researchers reported today at the Heart Rhythm Society’s annual meeting in Boston.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Cardiac Rhythm Management, Clinical Trials, Cryogenics

Medtronic’s Arctic Front Advance ST wins FDA approval

May 12, 2015 By Fink Densford Leave a Comment

Medtronic's Arctic Front Advance ST wins FDA approval

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said it won FDA approval for its Arctic Front Advance ST cryoablation catheter for treating atrial fibrillation, touting a 40% shorter tip than previous versions.

Filed Under: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well, Pre-Market Approval (PMA) Tagged With: Cardiac Rhythm Management, CE Mark, Cryogenics

CSA Medical raises another $4m for cryotherapy device

April 20, 2015 By Mark Hollmer Leave a Comment

CSA Medical raises another $4m for cryotherapy device

Maryland’s CSA Medical said last week that it’s close to reaching a $4 million funding goal with a new debt offering.

Filed Under: Funding Roundup, News Well Tagged With: Cryogenics, CSA Medical Inc.

AtriCure launches CryoIce treatment for pain

March 23, 2015 By Mark Hollmer Leave a Comment

AtriCure launches CryoIce pain treatment

Ohio’s AtriCure (NSDQ:ATRC) is promoting 1 of its cryoablation devices for a new indication, temporary pain relief for some cardiac surgery patients.

Filed Under: News Well, Pain Management Tagged With: AtriCure Inc., Cryogenics

BeneChill files for $14m IPO

December 23, 2014 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

BeneChill files for $14m IPO

The red-hot IPO market for medical device companies shows no signs of abating as the year comes to a close, with BeneChill yesterday tossing its hat in the ring for a nearly $14 million flotation.

Filed Under: Initial Public Offering (IPO), News Well Tagged With: BeneChill Inc., Cryogenics

CryoVascular founder looks to get PolarCath back on the market

November 7, 2014 By Brad Perriello

CryoVascular founder gets PolarCath back on the market

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Cryogenics, CryoVascular Inc., Distribution, NuCryo Vascular, Peripheral, vascularsolutions

CryoMedix seeks $12M for cryoablation platform

July 10, 2014 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

CryoMedix seeks $12M for cryoablation platform

CryoMedix said it’s raised $500,000 of a hoped-for $12 million Series B round for the cryoablation platform it’s developing.

San Diego-based CryoMedix is working on a device that uses single-phase liquid coolants, a feedback system, disposable catheter/needles and a rechargeable cartridge system to ablate tissue, according to its website.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Ablation, Cryogenics, CryoMedix

Cancer genetics: Learning the rules for breaking chromosomes

December 1, 2011 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

colored chromosomes

The chromosomes of cancer cells aren’t laid out nearly
this neatly. Parts of them get broken off and reshuffled,
but there are some rules for where those breaks occur,
rules that Fred Alt wants to understand. (NHGRI)

By Tom Ulrich

Filed Under: News Well, Oncology, Pediatrics Tagged With: Boston Children's Hospital, Cryogenics

Founder of cryonics movement dies, is cryogenically frozen

July 26, 2011 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

MassDevice On Call

MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Cryonics Institute founder Robert Ettinger was stored in a freezer alongside his mother and first and second wives after passing away over the weekend in hopes of being revived in the future.

Ettinger is considered by some to be the father of the cryonics movement, through which sick or dying humans and animals who can’t be sustained by contemporary medicine are preserved at low temperatures under the assumption that science will one day unlock the key to reanimating the lifeless body and curing what ailed it.

Filed Under: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Implants, News Well, Research & Development Tagged With: Cryogenics, Cryonics Institute

Medtronic’s heart tissue freezing treatment gets first use at Mayo

January 5, 2011 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

MDT logo

Mayo Clinic was the first medical center to use Medtronic Inc.’s (NYSE:MDT) heart tissue freezing device.

Hospital physician Dr. Douglas Packer yesterday treated an atrial fibrillation patient with the Minneapolis-based company’s Arctic Front cardiac cryoablation catheter system.

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, News Well Tagged With: Cardiac Rhythm Management, Cryogenics, Mayo Clinic

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