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A significant number ofpeople suffer an acute heart attack every day, and a number will have severe heart failure as a consequence. Patients may be at risk of heart failure at the time of urgent angioplasty repair (of the blocked artery that caused the heart attack). Other patients have damaged heart muscle and consequently suffer shortness of breath on exertion or even at rest. All of these patients are urgently admitted to hospital and would benefit from the temporary insertion of a miniature pump, with minimally invasive surgery, that could assist the heart, alleviate symptoms, and thereby allow appropriate medications or other treatments time to be introduced.
Our heart assist device is called TAD (Percutaneous Interventional Cardiovascular Support – Temporary Assist Device) and it is designed for implantation distant from the heart, with a less invasive procedure, in earlier stages of the disease (Class III) in order to improve the quality of life of many more heart failure patients. PICS Therapeutics also owns technology on two other miniature pumps in the Percutaneously Implantable Cardiovascular Support field.