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Interatrial Shunt to Go Before FDA Panel for Heart Failure Indication

Ventura's permanent interatrial shunt was designed to shunt blood from the left to right atrium to improve symptoms in ...
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How Adona Medical uses nitinol’s shape memory properties for its heart failure implant

Brian Fahey explains how Adona Medical uses heat to adjust its novel shape memory nitinol implant without harming heart ...
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FDA Panel Declines to Endorse Ventura Interatrial Shunt for HFrEF

Panelists considered the technology relatively safe but weren’t swayed by the “statistical gymnastics” needed to find a ...
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FDA panel on interatrial shunt for heart failure: It's a hard no

An FDA advisory panel gave a unanimous verdict for an interatrial shunt in heart failure: no way.
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FDA panel votes against approving interatrial shunt for heart failure

The FDA’s Circulatory System Devices Panel voted not to recommend approving use of an interatrial shunt to improve heart failure symptoms and prognosis.In a 0-15 vote, the committee determined risk ...
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FDA advisory panel votes unanimously against J&J heart shunt

J&J is pursuing premarket approval for the heart shunt. Although advisory committees provide recommendations to the FDA, the ...
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Shunt helps patients with brain condition to improve walking and gait: U of C study

Dr. Mark Hamilton, professor of neurosurgery at Cummings School of Medicine, holds the shunt used to help patient Jill Knaus. They were photographed at the University of Calgary on Tuesday, September ...