Abiomed Inc. announced that it received an expanded U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pre-Market Approval (PMA) for its Impella 2.5, Impella CP, Impella 5.0 and Impella LD heart pumps to provide treatment for heart failure associated with cardiomyopathy leading to cardiogenic shock. This approval expands the previous FDA indication for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) cardiogenic shock and post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock (PCCS), received in April 2016.

Abbott announced the first patient has been enrolled in a clinical trial evaluating 28 days of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) in patients at high risk of bleeding after implantation with a Xience everolimus-eluting coronary stent. The first patient was enrolled into the study by Prof. Emanuele Barbato, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiologist at OLV-Hospital Aalst in Belgium.

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Medtronic plc recently added to its body of clinical evidence supporting the In.Pact Admiral drug-coated balloon (DCB) with new presentations that demonstrated durable and consistent clinical outcomes in peripheral artery disease (PAD). The new data, presented at the Leipzig Interventional Course (LINC), Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 2018, in Leipzig, Germany, included the two-year results from the MDT-2113 study (IN.PACT SFA Japan) and data from a critical limb ischemia (CLI) subgroup analysis from the IN.PACT Global Study.