V-Wave – BIBA Medtech Insights

Second FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for V-Wave

V-Wave has announced that the FDA has granted it a second Breakthrough Device Designation—the first was for its interatrial shunt for heart failure and the second is for pulmonary arterial hypertension. The company is testing a minimally invasive, implanted interatrial shunt device for pulmonary artery hypertension in a global approved investigational device exemption (IDE) [...]

FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Interarterial shunt

V-Wave has announced that the FDA has just granted the company a Breakthrough Device Designation for its interatrial shunt for heart failure. V-Wave’s minimally invasive, implanted interatrial shunt is being evaluated in a global, randomised, controlled, double-blinded, 500 patient pivotal IDE trial called RELIEVE-HF. The study is enrolling advanced heart failure patients with preserved [...]