Neovasc Reducer Featured in Peer Reviewed EuroIntervention and PCR Online – BioSpace

VANCOUVER, March 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Neovasc Inc.("Neovasc" or the "Company") (NASDAQ,TSX: NVCN), a leader in the development of minimally invasive transcatheter mitral valve replacement technologies and minimally invasive devices for the treatment of refractory angina, announced today the Neovasc Reducer (the "Reducer") was featured in the peer reviewed publicationEuroIntervention, the official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) and highlighted inPCR Online.

In the study published inEuroIntervention, Coronary sinus Reducer implantation results in improved oxygen kinetics at cardiopulmonary exercise test in patients with refractory angina, in patients with obstructivecoronaryartery disease suffering from chronic refractory angina, treatment with coronary sinus Reducer implantation was associated with objective improvement in exercise capacity and oxygen kinetics tested by cardiopulmonary exercise testing as well as improvement in angina symptoms and quality of life. Patients with chronic refractory angina were treated with Reducer implantation at 2 medical centers: the Antwerp Cardiovascular Center in Belgium and the Tel Aviv Medical Center in Israel.

An additional case report published inPCR Onlineentitled, Coronary sinus reducer for microvascular angina, highlighted the successful implantation of the Reducer in a 61 year-old man with a history of coronary artery stenting, hypertension, type-2 diabetes and recurrent episodes of CCS class III-IV angina despite having non-obstructive coronary artery disease. Cardiac microcirculation testing (Abbott, Santa Clara, CA and Coroventis, Sweden) revealed microvascular ischemia despite patent coronary arteries. The patient was treated with a Reducer and demonstrated objective improvement in microvascular coronary blood flow. He became asymptomatic in the weeks following the procedure.

Neovascs Medical Director, Prof. Shmuel Banai, M.D, Director of the Division of Cardiology and the Head of Interventional Cardiology at the Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, said: Both of these studies demonstrate that the Coronary Sinus Reducer can not only improve symptoms and quality of life, but also provide objective improvement of ischemia, myocardial performance and coronary microvascular blood flow. We believe the Reducer has truly become an effective trusted cardiac treatment option in many countries.

About Reducer The Reducer is CE-marked in the European Union for the treatment of refractory angina, a painful and debilitating condition that occurs when there isinadequate supply of blood to parts of the heart muscle, despite current treatment therapies, including any form of standard revascularization anddrug therapies.It affects millions of patients worldwide, who typically lead severely restricted lives as a result of their disabling symptoms, and its incidence is growing. The Reducer provides relief of angina symptoms by altering blood flow in the heart's circulatory system, thereby increasing the perfusion of oxygenated blood to ischemic areas of the heart muscle. Placement of the Reducer is performed using a minimally invasive transvenous procedure that is similar to implanting a coronary stent and is completed in approximately 20 minutes.

While the Reducer is not approved for commercial use in the United States, the FDA granted Breakthrough Device designation to the Reducer inOctober 2018. This designation is granted by the FDA in order to expedite the development and review of a device that demonstrates compelling potential to provide a more effective treatment or diagnosis for life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases. In addition, there must be no FDA approved treatments presently available, or the technology must offer significant advantages over existing approved alternatives.

Refractory angina, resulting in continued symptoms despite maximal medical therapy and without revascularization options, is estimated to affect 600,000 to 1.8 million Americans, with 50,000 to 100,000 new cases per year. 1

1T. J. Povsic, S. Broderick, K. J. Anstrom et al., "Predictors of longterm clinical endpoints in patients with refractory angina," Journal of the American Heart Association, vol. 4, no. 2, article e001287, 2015.

About Neovasc Inc.

Neovasc is a specialty medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets products for the rapidly growing cardiovascular marketplace. Its products include the Reducer, for the treatment of refractory angina, which is not currently commercially available in the United States (2 U.S. patients have been treated under Compassionate Use) and has been commercially available in Europe since 2015, and Tiara, for the transcatheter treatment of mitral valve disease, which is currently under clinical investigation in the United States, Canada, Israel and Europe. For more information, visit:www.neovasc.com.

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