Global materials science company W. L. Gore & Associates has reached an agreement to acquire Conformal Medical, a medtech ...

W.L. Gore & Associates announced today that it agreed to acquire left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) device maker ...

Gore purchase of Conformal Medical brings innovative left atrial appendage occlusion system to expand cardiovascular ...

Under the acquisition, Gore will inherit Conformal’s CLAAS AcuForm system for left atrial appendage closure to mitigate ...

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) a global materials science company dedicated to transforming industries and improving ...

A steady stream of structural trial data, approvals, reimbursement decisions, and real-world rollouts arrived in 2025.

Left atrial appendage closure increases acute atrial pressure without long-term structural impact. Learn more about these short-term effects.

CHICAGO -- For patients at high risk of stroke who underwent catheter-based atrial fibrillation ablation, left atrial appendage closure led to less bleeding compared with oral anticoagulation, the ...

Initial results from more than 800 atrial fibrillation patients presented at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2016 indicate the AMPLATZER™ Amulet™ LAA Occluder is a safe alternative to ...

Background A 73-year-old woman presented with a history of persistent atrial fibrillation, which had lasted more than five years. She also had a remote history of transient ischemic attack and had ...

Among patients with atrial fibrillation (A-fib), the particular morphology of the left atrial appendage (LAA)—the source of most thromboemboli—appears to affect stroke risk, according to a study ...

Each year in the US, more than 300,000 people have heart surgery. To reduce risk of stroke for their patients, surgeons often will close the left atrial appendage, which is a small sac in the left ...