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Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Philips to Acquire Intact Vascular for $275M

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Intact Vascular, Inc., a U.S.-based developer of medical devices for minimally-invasive peripheral vascular procedures. Intact Vascular will enhance Philips’ image-guided therapy portfolio,...

August 28, 2020

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

RapidAI Receives FDA Clearance of Rapid LVO For Identification of Suspected Large Vessel Occlusions

RapidAI, the worldwide leader in advanced imaging for stroke, today announced that Rapid LVO has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for detecting suspected LVOs (Large Vessel Occlusions). Rapid LVO helps physicians speed up triage or transfer decision-making. Working...

August 13, 2020

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Eko and AstraZeneca Announce Digital Cardiovascular Health Partnership

Eko today announced a global collaboration with AstraZeneca to accelerate the development of digital health tools for the earlier screening of cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure. “There are millions of people living with or at risk for heart failure. AstraZeneca’s...

August 5, 2020

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Rapid Medical Receives CE Mark for Stentriever

Rapid Medical, a company focused on the development of next generation neurovascular devices, has announced that it received CE Mark for TIGERTRIEVER XL. In addition, the first patients have been treated successfully with the device. The TIGERTRIEVER family of stentrievers...

July 27, 2020

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Artio Medical Acquires Flow Forward Medical, Expanding Peripheral Vascular Portfolio

Artio Medical, Inc. (Artio) today announced it has acquired Flow Forward Medical, Inc. (Flow Forward), a medical device company developing innovative methods for establishing and maintaining high-quality vascular access sites to improve outcomes for hemodialysis patients. This stock-for-stock merger transaction...

July 24, 2020

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

FDA Clears Nonin Medical’s Flagship Product

Plymouth, Minn.-based Nonin Medical Inc. gained a U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for its Co-Pilot wireless hand-held multiparameter system (H500). The system is expected to be used by first responders to evaluate various oxygenation and respiratory-related parameters in patients after incidents such as...

July 9, 2020

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

NuVera Medical Announces Successful First-in-Human Use of NuVision ICE Catheter

NuVera Medical Inc. (NuVera), a portfolio company of Shifamed LLC, focused on enabling a new era in transcatheter cardiac interventions through the advancement of real-time 3D intracardiac echocardiography (4D ICE), announced today initiation of the company’s first-in-human clinical trial to evaluate the...

July 6, 2020

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

CVRx Announces Publication of BeAT-HF Clinical Study Results in the Journal of The American College of Cardiology

CVRx, Inc., a private medical device company, announced today that its BeAT-HF phase III randomized clinical trial results were published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (“JACC”). Results from the trial were used to obtain Premarket Approval...

July 1, 2020

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

LeMaitre Vascular Buys Artegraft for $90M

LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. announced that it has acquired the business and assets of Artegraft, Inc. for $90.0 million, including $72.5 million in cash paid at closing ($65.0 million to Artegraft plus $7.5 in escrow to be released December 31, 2021)...

June 24, 2020