July 9th 2024
Videoconference in French this evening at 6:00 pm CEST. To participate, please register by clicking on this link.
Paris, July 9, 2024 – 7:00 am CEST
CARMAT (FR0010907956, ALCAR), designer and developer of the world’s most advanced total artificial heart, aiming to provide a therapeutic alternative for people suffering from advanced biventricular heart failure (the “Company” or “CARMAT”), provides an update on its achievements over the first half of 2024 and reiterates its confidence in its development outlook.
Stéphane Piat, Chief Executive Officer of CARMAT, comments: “Overall, our first-half achievements are very positive. With sales of €3.2 million (i.e., 20 implants) in the first 6 months of the year, we have already exceeded our 2023 annual sales; and the trajectory is extremely encouraging, with twice as many implants in the second quarter as in the first.
With 14 implants since January 1st and a total of 25 since its initiation, the momentum of our EFICAS study in France is excellent. We expect to pass the halfway mark of the targeted 52 inclusions in the study very soon, which means we can anticipate completing these inclusions in the first half of 2025. This progress demonstrates that, once introduced to Aeson®, healthcare professionals rapidly adopt the therapy, which is a positive signal for our ongoing commercial development.
Building on these achievements, on a European network of 42 hospitals trained for commercial implants, on 3 commercially active countries (Germany, Italy, and Poland) and 6 others now ready, as well as on our growing and convincing clinical experience (70 implants carried out since the inception of CARMAT), I am confident that our sales will continue to grow gradually, quarter after quarter; and this, all the more as awareness around Aeson® is growing, notably driven by spontaneous communication from many centers that have implanted Aeson®.
I would like to thank our teams for their commitment and determination, and all our shareholders, whose support make these advances possible. More than ever, we remain resolutely committed to making CARMAT a leader in the field of advanced heart failure.”