Award Recognizes Company for Novel Percutaneous Heart Pump
Newswise — NEW YORK – September 27, 2022 – The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) is pleased to announce that Puzzle Medical Devices Inc. has won the TCT 2022 Shark Tank Innovation Competition for its novel circulatory support device that is implanted percutaneously in the abdominal aorta. The competition took place during Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the world’s premier educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine, September 16-19 in Boston. The winner was also presented with the Jon DeHaan Foundation Award for Innovation in Cardiology.
“We are excited to name Puzzle Medical as this year’s TCT Shark Tank Innovation Competition winner,” said Juan F. Granada, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of CRF, the sponsor of TCT. “Their ModulHeart device has the potential to change the course of treatment for heart failure patients in a minimally invasive way.”
The ModulHeart device provides hemodynamic support through three endovascular pumps inserted in series and assembled in parallel into a self-expandable anchor implanted in the descending aorta. Results from the device’s first-in-human study were published on September 17, 2022 and showed 100% procedural success in four patients. In addition, cardiac output increased by 25%, urine output increased by nine-fold, and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure decreased by 78%.