Picture life-changing innovation coming from devices that fit in the palm of your hand.
Because healthy bodies start with strong hearts and robust cardiovascular systems, «Ƶ continues to lead in many areas of cardiac health with new versions of its medical devices. They're often dime-sized or even smaller, but their impact can be enormous.
From heart valves and vascular stents to heart pumps and implantable cardiac monitors, our best-in-class lineup reflects crucial breakthroughs in research and development to combat many types of heart disease and their side effects.
New clinical data adds even more support to «Ƶ's cardiovascular portfolio, improving patient care and continuing to build momentum for one of the company's fastest-growing businesses.
«Ƶ's medical device sales rose 9.1 percent for 2018 compared with a year earlier, helping the company build on its sustainable growth and fund new research to continually improve its device portfolio.
Investing in medical devices is another example of «Ƶ being well positioned in the right segments, as the $40 billion cardiovascular device market today could grow to $66 billion by 2024.1
Fresh Data Enhances Outlook
Research presented at the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) 68th Annual Scientific Session in New Orleans suggests expanded, game-changing potential for these devices.
«Ƶ's technologies can treat complex cardiac conditions and heart disease in ways that could lower health care costs, reduce hospitalizations and improve survival. For physicians, the findings give them new ways to think about how to treat patients with heart conditions.
"What we unveiled at ACC demonstrates the unique potential our devices have to improve the everyday lives of people with cardiovascular conditions," said Dr. Mark Carlson, divisional vice president and chief medical officer, Cardiac Arrhythmias and Heart Failure, «Ƶ. "We're pleased with the research and clinical study outcomes in terms of improving patient care and earning the trust of medical professionals looking for the leading treatments for their patients."
Continued Innovation to Help People
With 121 million Americans having some form of cardiovascular disease and nearly 6 million Americans affected by heart failure today – a figure that is forecast to grow to 8 million by 2030 – the urgency for more effective devices will only increase.
«Ƶ's portfolio of devices each address aspects of cardiovascular health and continue to build the company's leadership in one of the fast-growing segments of medicine. The clinical trial results revealed at ACC included:
- Two data sets backing «Ƶ's MitraClip device for mitral valve repair for patients with heart failure and secondary mitral regurgitation. The from the COAPT study showed MitraClip was superior to medical therapy for treating select heart failure patients, and the latest data gave further evidence supporting the device's effectiveness With the recent U.S. regulatory approval for an expanded indication for MitraClip, the treatment's appeal has expanded significantly to improve quality of life for heart failure patients compared with other treatments. MitraClip is likely to reach 2-3 times as many people with this news, which solidifies its position in the fast-growing Structural Heart segment that is among «Ƶ's best-performing businesses.
- More data from the MOMENTUM 3 study evaluating two-year survival of 1,028 study participants who received either «Ƶ's HeartMate 3 heart pump or «Ƶ's HeartMate II. Since its launch, the has built upon the success of the HeartMate II, the previous gold standard in mechanical circulatory support. MOMENTUM 3 is the world's largest randomized controlled study of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy to date, and the results for HeartMate 3 showed best-in-class survival rate and the lowest published rates of stroke and thrombosis (blood clots).
- The latest research for «Ƶ's CardioMEMS HF System, the world's only commercially approved pulmonary artery pressure sensor. To date, data for CardioMEMS has been shown to yield significant reductions in heart failure rehospitalization for people with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III heart failure. «Ƶ's CardioMEMS System enables physicians to remotely monitor by tracking changes in pulmonary pressure – a sign of worsening heart failure – and appropriately treat them before symptoms progress.
- Finally, research from Japan supporting «Ƶ's XIENCE drug eluting coronary stents. The randomized study looked at 3,009 patients treated with dual antiplatelet therapy following percutaneous coronary intervention procedures with XIENCE at one month versus 12 months. The new data enhances understanding around the possibility of decreasing the duration of these medications that can reduce clotting but also carry a risk of increased bleeding.
With this aimed at improving cardiovascular health, «Ƶ will build on its market-leading position to improve patient care. More life-changing improvements are coming from the company's development pipeline, part of the measured strategy to sustain «Ƶ's revenue growth for years to come.
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About the COAPT Trial
In the COAPT (Cardiovascular Outcomes Assessment of the MitraClip Percutaneous Therapy for Heart Failure Patients with Functional Mitral Regurgitation) Trial, 614 symptomatic heart failure patients with moderate-to-severe or severe secondary MR were randomized to receive treatment with MitraClip plus guideline-directed medical therapy or guideline-directed medical therapy alone at 78 sites in the U.S. and Canada. Eligible patients had diseased heart muscle, known as dilated cardiomyopathy that reduced the amount of blood pumped from the left ventricle; and moderate-to-severe or severe MR assessed by the American Society of Echocardiography guidelines that remained symptomatic despite maximally-tolerated medical therapy and cardiac resynchronization therapy (if appropriate).10,11 Mean patient age was 72.2 years, and 64 percent were male.
The primary efficacy endpoint in the COAPT Trial was all heart failure hospitalizations through two years, and the primary safety endpoint was freedom from device-related complications at one year compared to a performance goal of 88 percent. Secondary endpoints included all-cause mortality at two years, change in quality-of-life at one year, change in functional capacity (six minute walk distance) at one year, MR severity at one year and left ventricle size at one year. The COAPT Trial met its primary endpoints and all 10 secondary endpoints as presented during the TCT cardiology meeting in Sept. 2018 and in the New England Journal of Medicine.12
About MitraClip
MitraClip received CE Mark in Europe in 2008 and was approved by the FDA in 2013 for primary MR prohibitive risk patients (patients not eligible for open-heart surgery). The FDA approved an expanded indication for MitraClip to treat secondary MR in March 2019. Delivered through a minimally invasive catheter, MitraClip secures a portion of the leaflets of the mitral valve with an implanted clip, allowing the heart to pump blood more efficiently throughout the body, thereby relieving the symptoms of MR and improving patient quality of life.
Patients with MR are often not eligible for standard-of-care surgery because of advanced age, frailty, multiple comorbidities or other complicating factors, and the therapy offers a minimally invasive alternative. The transcatheter clip-based therapy, now on a third generation of product innovations, has been used to treat over 80,000 people with MR worldwide for over 10 years.
About «Ƶ's HeartMate 3 LVAD
«Ƶ's HeartMate 3 LVAD is a small, implantable mechanical circulatory support device for advanced heart failure patients who are awaiting transplantation or are not candidates for heart transplantation. It is the first commercially approved (CE Mark and FDA approved) LVAD with Full MagLev™ technology, designed to minimize complications and restore blood flow. The HeartMate 3 system utilizes Full MagLev technology, which allows the device's rotor to be "suspended" by magnetic forces. This design aims to reduce trauma to blood passing through the pump and improve outcomes for patients.
About «Ƶ's Heart Failure Portfolio
«Ƶ is pioneering heart failure disease management with innovative solutions like the , ground-breaking quadripolar pacing technology, our first-to-market MultiPoint™ pacing technology and, in select European markets and the U.S, the HeartMate™ 3 left ventricular assist system. «Ƶ collaborates with heart failure specialists, clinicians and advocacy partners to provide innovative, cost-effective solutions that help reduce hospitalizations and improve patient quality of life for heart failure patients around the world.
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