Heart diseases such as chronic and acute heart failure are considered to be among the world’s leading causes of death. By designing and developing the world’s first-ever most advanced total artificial heart, Paris-based CARMAT aims to fulfil the unmet medical need to people suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure.
In a recent development, CARMAT announced that it had received the CE marking for its artificial heart system. The CE marking was granted on December 22, 2020, to its total artificial heart system as a bridge to transplant in patients suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure (Intermacs Classes 1-4) who are not amenable to maximal medical therapy or the LVAD1 and who are likely to undergo a heart transplant in the 180 days following implantation.