December 9th 2019
Paris, December 9, 2019 – 7.00 am CET
CARMAT (FR0010907956, ALCAR), the designer and developer of the world’s most advanced total artificial heart project, aiming to provide a therapeutic alternative for people suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure, today announced that a 12th patient of the PIVOTAL study has been implanted in the Czech Republic.
This implant was performed by the team headed by Prof. Ivan Netuka, Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM) in Prague and Principal Investigator of the second part of the PIVOTAL study.
Stéphane Piat, Chief Executive Officer of CARMAT, said: “We are very pleased to announce the resumption of implants in Prague. The surgical procedure was performed satisfactorily a few days ago, and the patient is continuing his gradual recovery. We noticed, both at the Prague center and in Nur-Sultan, an increased flow of eligible patients, which should enable the medical teams to enroll patients at a faster pace than for the first cohort, in line with our aim of obtaining CE marking in 2020.”