The cardiology sector, long known as one of the most innovative in medtech, has a new wave of technologies on the horizon that could help reinvigorate the sector and create new multibillion-dollar market opportunities for device manufacturers. We take a closer look at these technologies, which include vagal nerve stimulation, remote monitoring for heart failure, as well as innovation in the percutaneous coronary intervention space, all of which were all in the spotlight at the recent European Society of Cardiology Congress 2014 in Barcelona.

This year’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting featured several presentations of favorable new data on Abbott’s Absorb bioresorbable vascular scaffold. The company is optimistic that it will be able to complete a PMA application to FDA for the disappearing stent by the end of 2015.

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