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Category Archives: Cardiovascular devices

Dr Michael E DeBakey > Father of modern cardiovascular surgery > Pioneering artificial heart > Dies at 99

Monday, July 14, 2008

Is he considered to be the greatest surgeon ever? Will we ever know how Cooley obtained the artificial heart from DeBakey’s lab? Was the DeBakey-Cooley feud necessary in order to focus on the clinical need for a total artificial heart?

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…Dr Michael DeBakey, the pioneering heart surgeon who shot to […]

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Evalve Completes $60 Million Series D Financing > MitraClip Device > Percutaneous repair of cardiac valves > Device for Percutaneous Repair of Mitral Valve Regurgitation > EVEREST Pivotal Study

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Are serial entrepreneurs and VC’s focused on investing even more into Evalve for finally taking the company through the process of innovation to a point of actual value creation? Is Evalve Inc.’s new round of financing a true indication for the high expectations of its investors? Is the participation of Emergent Medical Ventures, the new […]

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Medicine’s most famous feud at rest > Dr Denton A Cooley > Dr Michael E DeBakey > Artificial heart

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Is is going to be a permanent peace between the two Houston-based heart surgeons? Will we ever know how Cooley obtained the artificial heart from DeBakey’s lab? Was the DeBakey-Cooley feud necessary in order to focus on the clinical need for a total artificial heart?

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A rift between the surgeons […]

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Medtronic’s Securant > Lombard’s EndoRefix > New Stent Graft Fixation Device: Regulatory Milestones Inch Stent Stapler Closer to Launch

Friday, October 26, 2007

What will Medtronic do with the technology for the repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms that addresses a $400 million worldwide market that’s expected to rise to $1 billion by 2010? What is the true clinical utility of EndoRefix as an adjunctive procedure to endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysms stent graft repair? Will A limited European launch […]

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