CARMAT Achieves the Milestone of 100 Implants of Its Aeson® Total Artificial Heart
10 February 2025 - 5:00PM
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Regulatory News:
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”), today announces that it has passed the milestone
of 100 implants of its Aeson® artificial heart.
Symbolic milestone of 100 Aeson® artificial heart implants
passed
The 99th and 100th implants were successfully performed on
Friday, February 7, 2025, at the Lille and Dijon university
hospitals. They were carried out simultaneously, respectively by
the teams of Prof. Vincentelli and Prof. Bouchot, as part of the
EFICAS clinical study in France.
View the animation marking the 100th implant
of Aeson® by clicking here
Significant acceleration in pace of implants since
2024
The first 50 implants had been performed over 10 years, between
2013 (the year of Aeson® first human implant) and the end of
2023.
Since early 2024, the pace of implants has accelerated sharply
leading to 50 additional implants performed in just over a
year.
This acceleration reflects the growing deployment of the therapy
across Europe, as well as the satisfaction and adherence of
healthcare professionals, who gradually integrate Aeson® into their
therapeutic arsenal and clinical practice.
This highly encouraging momentum supports CARMAT's ambition to
double sales in 2025, and gradually establish Aeson® as a benchmark
therapy for the treatment of advanced heart failure.
Stéphane Piat, Chief Executive Officer of CARMAT,
comments: “About a year ago, we announced the milestone of 50
Aeson® implants. Today, we are delighted to announce the 100th
implant, demonstrating that Aeson® meets a real therapeutic need. I
would like to thank all healthcare professionals who are working
with us on this extraordinary project, as well as the CARMAT teams
for their unwavering commitment. My thoughts also go to the
patients and their families, to whom Aeson® brings real hope.
Together, we contribute to shaping the future of advanced heart
failure treatment, with our innovative artificial heart.”
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About CARMAT
CARMAT is a French MedTech that designs, manufactures and
markets the Aeson® artificial heart. The Company’s ambition is to
make Aeson® the first alternative to a heart transplant, and thus
provide a therapeutic solution to people suffering from end-stage
biventricular heart failure, who are facing a well-known shortfall
in available human grafts. The world’s first physiological
artificial heart that is highly hemocompatible, pulsatile and
self-regulated, Aeson® could save, every year, the lives of
thousands of patients waiting for a heart transplant. The device
offers patients quality of life and mobility thanks to its
ergonomic and portable external power supply system that is
continuously connected to the implanted prosthesis. Aeson® is
commercially available as a bridge to transplant in the European
Union and other countries that recognize CE marking. Aeson® is also
currently being assessed within the framework of an Early
Feasibility Study (EFS) in the United States. Founded in 2008,
CARMAT is based in the Paris region, with its head offices located
in Vélizy-Villacoublay and its production site in Bois-d’Arcy. The
Company can rely on the talent and expertise of a multidisciplinary
team of circa 200 highly specialized people. CARMAT is listed on
the Euronext Growth market in Paris (Ticker: ALCAR / ISIN code:
FR0010907956).
For more information, please go to www.carmatsa.com and follow
us on LinkedIn.
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Name: CARMAT ISIN code:
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Disclaimer
This press release and the information it contains do not
constitute an offer to sell or subscribe, or the solicitation of an
order to buy or subscribe, CARMAT shares in any country.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements about
the Company's objectives and prospects. These forward-looking
statements are based on the current estimates and expectations of
the Company's management and are subject to risk factors and
uncertainties, including those described in its universal
registration document filed with the Autorité des Marchés
Financiers (AMF) under number D.24-0374, as updated by an amendment
to the 2023 universal registration document filed with the AMF on
17 September 2024 under number D. 24-0374-A01 (together the ‘2023
Universal Registration Document’), and available on CARMAT's
website.
Readers' attention is particularly drawn to the fact that the
Company's current financing horizon is limited until mid-May 2025
and that, given its financing requirements and the dilutive
instruments in circulation, the Company's shareholders are likely
to experience significant dilution of their stake in the Company in
the short term. The Company is also subject to other risks and
uncertainties, such as the Company's ability to implement its
strategy, the pace of development of CARMAT's production and sales,
the pace and results of ongoing or planned clinical trials,
technological developments, changes in the competitive environment,
regulatory developments, industrial risks and all risks associated
with managing the Company's growth. The forward-looking statements
contained in this press release may not be achieved as a result of
these factors or other unknown risks and uncertainties or factors
that the Company does not currently consider material and
specific.
Aeson® is an active implantable medical device commercially
available in the European Union and other countries recognising the
CE mark. The Aeson® total artificial heart is intended to replace
the ventricles of the native heart and is indicated as a bridge to
transplant in patients with end-stage biventricular heart failure
(Intermacs classes 1-4) who cannot benefit from maximal medical
therapy or a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) and who are
likely to benefit from a heart transplant within 180 days of
implantation. The decision to implant and the surgical procedure
must be carried out by healthcare professionals trained by the
manufacturer. The documentation (clinician's manual, patient's
manual and alarm booklet) must be read carefully to learn about the
characteristics of Aeson® and the information required for patient
selection and proper use (contraindications, precautions, side
effects) of Aeson®. In the United States, Aeson® is currently only
available as part of a feasibility clinical trial approved by the
Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
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