Brightflow SAS raised €16.5 million (US$18 million) in a series A financing round that will go towards developing its right ventricular mechanical circulatory support system. The company is working towards bringing the first long-term fully percutaneous implantable pump for right-sided heart failure to the market, Sophie Humbert, CEO at Brightflow, told BioWorld.

In the first study to compare transcatheter aortic valve replacement or implantation to surgical aortic valve replacement exclusively in women, Edwards Lifescience Corp.’s Sapien 3 and Sapien 3 Ultra valves provided better outcomes.

Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region for health care spending, and by 2030 APAC will account for more than 20% of global health care spending, Tom Lawry, managing director of Second Century Tech told the APACMed Forum 2024 conference held in Singapore, Sept 5-6.

Angiodynamics Inc. received CE mark approval for its Auryon atherectomy system which treats peripheral artery disease, including critical limb ischemia and in-stent restenosis. The regulatory clearance expands the company’s global reach as it sees increasing revenues from sales of the device.

Elixir Medical Corp. reported positive 12-month data from the Infinity-Swedeheart trial that compared its Dynamx coronary bioadaptor system to Medtronic plc’s Resolute Onyx zotarolimus drug-eluting stent in patients requiring percutaneous coronary intervention with coronary artery disease.

In what represents Vienna, Austria-based Valeriot GmbH’s first patenting, its founder and CEO, Michael Flatscher, describes their invention of a device, Autovein, for use in no-touch vein harvesting which overcomes the issues faced with traditional vein harvesting techniques which are laborious, prone to complications and challenging to master.

Hope for definitive resolution of the controversy about the superiority of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair of mitral valves over medical therapy in individuals with symptomatic heart failure and functional mitral regurgitation were dashed at the European Society of Cardiology meeting this weekend.

Boston Scientific Corp. obtained a CE mark for its latest self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement technology, the Acurate Prime, opening up a new access point for increased sales and profitability in its structural heart division this year.

Researchers from the University of Arkansas have filed for protection of their development of systems and methods to aid angioplasty procedures in coronary artery bifurcations, where a major artery splits into smaller blood vessels.

Since the U.S. FDA’s approval of the first pulsed field ablation (PFA) system in the U.S. last December, PFA technology has rapidly reconfigured the electrophysiology market in the U.S. and ramped up sales of PFA systems in Europe.