Alleviant Medical Inc., a privately-held medical device company, today announced one-month and three-month follow up data from the first in human clinical study (ALLEVIATE-HF-1) of its technology for the treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
The Alleviant System is a novel transcatheter device for the creation of a therapeutic interatrial shunt without a permanent cardiac implant. Results were presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session (ACC.21) and at the annual meeting of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EuroPCR 2021) by Colin Barker, MD, Director of Interventional Cardiology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Jacob Kriegel, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Alleviant Medical.
The reported results of this ongoing first in human study include safety and objective clinical and quality of life outcome measures at one and three-months post-procedure in ten subjects. Data highlights include: