Duke University’s Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) has been selected by Oxygen Biotherapeutics, a pharmaceutical company, to conduct the Phase III clinical trial of the company’s newly acquired compound, levosimendan. ...
Kips Bay Medical has treated the first US patient in a multi-center, randomized eMESH I clinical trial using its extravascular nitinol (nickel titanium alloy) prosthesis. The prosthesis, eSVS Mesh, is used as an external saphenous vein ...
US-based CorMatrix Cardiovascular has completed trial on its ECM technology that helps in closing the pericardium of patients undergoing postoperative coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and said the trial results confirm its safe use. ...
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For almost two decades research has suggested that people with diabetes and multiple clogged arteries live longer and have fewer heart attacks if they undergo bypass surgery instead of angioplasty. Yet many of those people continue to be ...
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American medical device firm Kips Bay Medical's eMESH I clinical feasibility trial has moved a step further, with first patient enrolling to the study at a European hospital. Switzerland-based Bern University Hospital has recently ...
Tags: eSVS Mesh, Kips Bay, CABG Surgery