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 […]
Cryogenics
HRS 2015: Cryoablation as good as standard ablation for AF
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.
Medtronic’s Arctic Front Advance ST wins FDA approval
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.
AtriCure launches CryoIce treatment for pain
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.
CryoVascular founder looks to get PolarCath back on the market
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.
Cancer genetics: Learning the rules for breaking 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
Founder of cryonics movement dies, is cryogenically frozen
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.
Medtronic’s heart tissue freezing treatment gets first use at Mayo
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.
