In Brief: CryoLife
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CryoLife: Acquires patent rights to a stentless pulmonary porcine heart valve for use in pediatric applications. Use of the valve, which was developed by English heart surgeon Donald Ross, "would provide pediatric cardiovascular surgeons with the ability to `series' a number of heart valve implants as infants and young children rapidly outgrow implanted valves as they mature," CryoLife says. CryoLife plans to commence European clinical trials of the Ross valve in 1997...