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Why Affera’s cardiac ablation technology is worth $1B to Medtronic

November 16, 2022 By Jim Hammerand

A sphere-shaped, expandable lattice device with electrodes for cardiac ablation
Affera’s Sphere-9 mapping and ablation catheter [Photo courtesy of Affera]
Affera started in 2014 with a simple goal that paid off when Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) bought the company for up to $1 billion this year.

Achieving that goal, however, took some unconventional and sometimes difficult design choices, Affera founder and CEO Doron Harlev said.

Newton, Massachusetts–based Affera’s system diagnoses, maps and treats heart arrhythmias with ablation. It’s a process that scars heart tissue to interrupt errant signals. Affera’s system uses both radiofrequency (RF) ablation and the non-thermal pulsed-field ablation tech that has been generating buzz in medtech.

In an interview, Harlev and Rebecca Seidel, president of the Cardiac Ablation Solutions business in Medtronic’s Cardiovascular Portfolio, discussed how Affera’s devices work, the challenges to develop them and what’s next for the technology.

Get the full story at our sister site, Medical Design & Outsourcing.

Filed Under: Advanced Materials, Catheters, Materials, Metals, Research, Research & Development, Tubing Components Tagged With: Affera, medtronic

About Jim Hammerand

Jim Hammerand is the managing editor of Medical Design & Outsourcing. He has more than 15 years of professional journalism experience spanning newspapers, magazines, websites and broadcast news. For nearly a decade, he reported and edited business news for American City Business Journals as a reporter and digital editor at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and then managing editor of the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota. He is based near Seattle in Edmonds, Washington, where he and his family live. Connect with him on LinkedIn or by email at jimhammerand@wtwhmedia.com.

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